Voters in two counties in Washington and Oregon have not received mail-in ballots with less than a week to go before the election, election officials said Wednesday.
The news comes two days after incendiary devices were set off in ballot drop boxes in both those states.The U.S. Postal Service failed to deliver an unknown number of ballots in Coos County, Oregon, and it didn’t deliver up to 300 ballots in Whitman County, Washington, elections officials told The Associated Press. Both states conduct elections by mail.
16 and the postal service marked them all — including the now missing ones — as received, Jamison said."I don’t know where they went after that," she said.Postal officials told her Wednesday they were still investigating. "They still have no official word to me that they have found the ballots," Jamison said.″We’re reissuing ballots as a quick turnaround as we can get, as time is of the essence now, obviously, for them to get their ballots back into us," she said.
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