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Postal Service warns forty-six US states their voters could be disenfranchised by delayed mail-in ballots

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    skybrian
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    I'm not sure how concerned we should be, but it seems useful to prepare for the worst even it turns out to be unnecessary. Many states are already ahead of the game. But I gotta wonder about...

    I'm not sure how concerned we should be, but it seems useful to prepare for the worst even it turns out to be unnecessary. Many states are already ahead of the game.

    But I gotta wonder about Wisconsin's inability to change deadlines. That seems broken.

    Wisconsin’s deadlines were set years ago, when it was reasonable to expect a letter dropped in the mail to arrive in another part of the state two days later, elections officials said this week. But with increasingly slower delivery times and no recourse for bureaucrats to change the deadlines, elections officials are focusing on what they can do — encouraging voters to take on more responsibility to request and cast mail-in ballots early, as well as installing drop boxes and implementing a bar code tracking system for voters to monitor their ballots.

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    1. moonbathers
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      Thanks for posting that bit, I skimmed the article and didn't see that. About four years ago something changed with how they route mail and my paychecks went from my office in Madison to Milwaukee...

      Thanks for posting that bit, I skimmed the article and didn't see that. About four years ago something changed with how they route mail and my paychecks went from my office in Madison to Milwaukee back to me in Madison afterward.

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