Voters in swing states such as Wisconsin and Georgia can trust their mail ballots will arrive at election offices on time, America’s top postal official, Louis DeJoy, insisted Thursday.
LAS VEGAS — Voters in swing states such as Wisconsin and Georgia can trust their mail ballots will arrive at election offices on time, America’s top postal official insisted Thursday — but pols on both sides of the aisle weren’t buying it as they blasted him for service declines across the country.
Mail-in voting jumped 25% between 2016 and 2020, subcommittee Chair David Joyce said, and this year “we expect that voting by mail will be popular again.” Joyce chided DeJoy over a 51% drop in on-time first-class-mail performance in Atlanta under the consolidation plan’s changes, which he said “erode the public confidence” in the agency.Getting it right will be especially important in swing-state Nevada. Following the 2020 pandemic, the Silver State authorized postal-only balloting for general elections, which magnified the effect of mail-processing issues.
DeJoy said using an Intelligent Mail barcode that would track each return piece step-by-step through the system would help. But neither USPS nor the main associations of state election officials could say how many of the nation’s 8,000 local election jurisdictions will implement the coding this year.
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