USPS urges local jurisdictions to advise voters to send mail-in ballots at least 15 days before election

LOS ANGELES – The United States Postal Service is advising local jurisdictions that their voters should send in mail-in ballots no later than 15 days before Election Day. “We recommend that jurisdictions immediately communicate and advise voters to request ballots at the earliest point allowable but no later than 15 days prior to election date,” […]

Colorado Secretary of State: USPS delivered 828 ballots late

DENVER — Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said Friday that 828 replacement ballots that were not delivered to voters in Denver and Arapahoe counties until Election Day. Replacement ballots are typically requested by the voter. “[The United States Postal Service] did not notify our office of this issue, even though they were aware of […]

Some students aren’t voting absentee because they don’t know where to buy stamps

FAIRFAX, Va. –Some college students who want to vote in elections apparently don’t mail back their absentee ballots because they don’t know where to buy stamps. Officials in Fairfax County, Virginia, conducted a focus group with their college interns over the summer. Many participants said their friends who didn’t send back their absentee ballots thought […]