With mail-in voting about to get underway, concerns are being raised about whether the Postal Service is up to the task.
This week, two leading election official groups urged the postmaster general to address widespread problems that have already disrupted voting in the primaries. These problems include long delivery times and local officials receiving properly postmarked ballots well after Election Day in nearly every state.
That’s in addition to many election officials reporting higher than usual rates of ballots being marked as undeliverable.
Those problems were noted by the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors. They wrote, “We implore you to take immediate and tangible corrective action,” saying “we have not seen improvement or concerted efforts to remediate our concerns.”
The Post Office responded by saying it is “committed to the timely and secure delivery of the nation’s Election Mail.”