Top Election Officials Warn Postal Service of Mail Ballot Issues

A bipartisan group of election officials sounded the alarm on Wednesday about significant problems in the Postal Service in delivering mailed ballots, highlighting previous cases “in nearly every state” of ballots being delivered “well after Election Day.”

The National Association of Secretaries of State, a nonpartisan organization representing the top election officials in each state, wrote a letter to Louis DeJoy, the head of the Postal Service, saying that election officials had “raised serious questions” about “lost or delayed election mail” and other problems affecting the agency’s ability to deliver ballots on time ahead of Election Day. The letter added that some of the issues have led to voters being disenfranchised.