State election directors from across the country have voiced serious concerns to a top U.S. Postal Service official that the system won’t be able to handle an expected crush of mail-in ballots in the November election.
Discover incredible Insider Deals that will make your life a little bit easierMolly Woon, left, elections director with the Oregon Secretary of State's Office, leads a panel discussion on mail voting on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Minneapolis, at the summer conference of the National Association of State Election Directors. She's speaking with Steven Carter, manager of election and government programs for the U.S. Postal Service.
But state election directors stressed to Carter that they're still worried that too many ballots won’t be delivered in time to be counted in November. They based their fears on past problems and aMonica Evans, executive director of the District of Columbia Board of Elections, recounted how she never received her mail ballot for her own June primary. She ended up voting in person.
Bryan Caskey, the elections director for Kansas who's also the association's incoming president, asked Carter to consider a hypothetical jurisdiction that has a 95% on-time rate for mail deliveries, which he said is better than what almost all states are getting. “I think that we are at a place where we really need them to pay attention,” Vigil said."You know, we’ve been voicing our concerns since last November. But we just aren’t seeing the changes as we’re working through our primary elections. And when it comes to November, like, we need to see a difference.”
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