The United States Postal Service (USPS) said Monday they expect their “Election Mail performance in 2024 to be equal to or better than 2020.” But that doesn’t suffice when an election will be decided on the margins and numerous voters across the country are reporting that they never received the mail-in ballots that they requested.
In Scarborough, Maine, one voter told WGME that she voted in person on Monday because the mail in ballot she previously requested never arrived. It’s a similar story told by fellow Scarborough voter Glenn Grant, who reportedly wanted to vote by mail.
“But the ballot has never come, which says something about our mail service,” Grant told WGME.
Meanwhile USPS “failed to deliver an unknown number of ballots in Coos County, Oregon, and it didn’t deliver up to 300 ballots in Whitman County, Washington,” The Associated Press reported, citing election officials. Coos County Clerk Julie Brecke said her office has received nonstop calls due to ballots not arriving “as a result of an error at USPS,” according to The AP.
Meanwhile Whitman County said that a third-party vendor delivered roughly 24,000 ballots to the post office on Oct. 16 where they were all marked. But roughly 300 ballots are still missing.
“I don’t know where they went after that,” Whitman County Auditor Sandy Jamison said, according to The Associated Press.
In Bend, Oregon, the USPS claimed it has finally caught up with mail deliveries after several residents reported having not received their Nov.
