The U. S. Postal Service stopped updating a national change of address database used by election officials in a majority of states for three weeks in August, TIME reports, affecting 1.8 million address changes and marking the latest in a string of mail-in voting controversies tied to USPS ahead o...
The U.S. Postal Service stopped updating a national change of address database used by election officials in a majority of states for three weeks in August, TIME
, affecting 1.8 million address changes and marking the latest in a string of mail-in voting controversies tied to USPS ahead of the November election....
It is unclear why the issue took place, with reported internal USPS documents describing it only as an unexplained “error,” and those who regularly use the system—including bulk mailers and other groups, along with election officials—described the outage to TIME as “highly unusual.” While it is unclear exactly how many of the 1.8 million affected addresses could be tied to election mail, an election official in an undisclosed state told TIME the outage cost officials approximately 10 days in delays while the issue was corrected, and Minnesota officials sent out ballot applications based on the faulty information.
The addresses were restored after some states had already started mailing out mail-in ballots or ballot requests, and states had started compiling voter address data “long before” the issue was corrected, TIME notes.
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