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The United States Postal Service might not be able to deliver when it comes to the 2024 race for the White House, election officials have warned.
During the November 2022 midterm elections, 98.96% of ballots sent by voters to election officials were delivered within three days, 99.82% were delivered within five days, and 99.93% were ...
The United States Postal Service is open for business and will deliver mail on Election Day. According to the USPS, performance on Tuesday is expected to be equal or better than 2020.
U.S. Postal Service officials briefed news reporters Thursday on measures that are being taken to ensure election mail reaches its destinations, building on its performance in 2020, when 97.9% of ballots were returned to election officials within three days, and in 2022, when 98.9% of election mail was delivered within three days. DeJoy said he ...
The Postal Service warned voters in 46 states that it could not guarantee that all ballots cast by mail in the 2020 election would arrive in time to be counted. [65] For this reason, election experts advocated that postal ballots be mailed weeks in advance of election day. [59]
Republicans have filed lawsuits to stop states from counting postmarked mail-in ballots that are received by election officials after Election Day. About 20 states, plus Washington, D.C., accept and count mail-in ballots received after Election Day as long as they are postmarked on or before that day. [97]
The 2020 United States Postal Service crisis was a series of events that caused backlogs and delays in the delivery of mail by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The crisis stems primarily from changes implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy shortly after taking office in June 2020.
The inspector general’s office said 46% of votes were cast by mail in the November 2020 presidential election, compared with 21% in the 2016 election. In total, USPS delivered 3.37 billion ...