With voting by mail set for a major expansion because of the pandemic, some worry that thousands of absentee ballots could be rejected because the Postal Service may not postmark the envelope.
A similar problem arose in the June primary in New York, where a federal judge ruled after the election that thousands of ballots that had been rejected because they didn't have postmarks should be counted, as long as they had been received within two days of the election.
Democrats argue that it's not fair for a voter to have their ballot rejected if they mailed it in on time, but through no fault of their own, it didn't get a postmark. They say it's especially important to relax the rules this year, after the Postal Service warned states that it cannot guarantee that it will be able to deliver ballots on time if deadlines are too tight.
Election officials say the possibility that someone could manipulate the results by sending in ballots after the deadline is extremely far-fetched. Still, election officials are taking a number of steps to try to avoid potential problems, including working more closely with local postal officials to make sure ballots are postmarked.
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