The U.S. Postal Service issued letters in July to 46 states and Washington D.C. warning their election deadlines may result in mail-in ballots being delivered too late to be counted
An elections worker prepares to scan ballots at the King County Elections headquarters on August 4,reports that six states—Vermont, Utah, Washington, California, Hawaii and Colorado, plus D.C.—have been warned that a “narrow set of voters” could have their ballots delayed, while 40 states have been issued “heightened warnings” about the possibility of ballots arriving after the deadline.
to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson—one of the “heightened warnings”—USPS General Counsel Thomas J. Marshall warned of a “mismatch” between the agency’s “delivery standards” and state deadlines for requesting and mailing in ballots, which risks that ballots “will not be returned by mail in time to be counted.”, are Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico and Rhode Island. The letters encourage officials to send election mail as more expensive first class mail to ensure faster delivery, a USPS practice that previously treated election mail as first class mail while charging a lower marketing mail rate.in response to the letter they received, saying it marked “a significant change to the outlook for voting by mail,” and officials in Maryland and Arizona told theThough mail ballots arriving after the deadline has been an existing concern—an in mid-July found at least 65,000 ballots had been rejected so far this primary season for arriving too late—the letters come amid recent changes by USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, which have resulted in widespread mail delays.The USPS’s letters to states and the change to how election mail is treated have been met with widespread opposition from Democratic lawmakers, with
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