USPS offers update on election efforts | The organization outlines plans to repeat its 2020 and 2022 successes

USPS offers update on election efforts | The organization outlines plans to repeat its 2020 and 2022 successes

From the article: "...USPS officials also said that the organization will implement extraordinary measures from Oct. 21 to Nov. 15 to make sure mail-in ballots are delivered close to or on Election Day or by a state’s ballot return deadline. This includes additional pickups, extra deliveries and employing special features on processing equipment to expedite and enhance ballot delivery. “Since late last year, the Postal Service has met regularly with stakeholders across the Election Mail landscape, including state and local election administrators; postal unions and management associations; federal agencies and Congress; the mailing industry; and nongovernmental organizations,” said Adrienne Marshall, the Postal Service’s election and government mail services director. The Postal Inspection Service also described its plans to ensure the secure delivery of all mail-in ballots. ..."

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Gen-Z voters told they are 100 years old in postal ballot blunder

Gen-Z voters told they are 100 years old in postal ballot blunder

From the article: "Chang Liu is a 22-year-old clinical medicine student at the University of Cambridge who received an erroneous ballot that would have prompted him to claim he was born in 1902. He told The Telegraph: “It is ridiculous that a simple printing error threatens to disenfranchise thousands of young people. ...A bungling council gave voters born after 2000 postal ballots with dates of birth in the 1900s. Cambridge City Council emailed more than 1,000 postal voters aged between 18 and 24, telling them a printing error meant their ballots suggested they were aged between 118 and 124. ..."

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