Wisconsin Elections Commission asks postal service to speed up deliveries of absentee ballots

The Wisconsin Elections Commission is asking the U.S. Postal Service for “extraordinary measures” to speed up deliveries of absentee ballots after two-thirds of clerks reported problems during the April 7 election.

The delays were so bad that one longtime clerk called it “the worst ever” in her nearly three decades of handling elections.

The letter sent Thursday to U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner outlines concerns about “mail delays that threaten the ability of our citizens to exercise their right to vote,” noting that military and overseas Wisconsin voters are disproportionately affected.

“In a subsequent survey of Wisconsin local election officials, two-thirds of clerks reported problems with the mail,” the commission’s letter stated. “More than half of the clerks reported receiving complaints and concerns from their voters. And a quarter of the clerks reported receiving more late ballots than is typical for an election.”


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