Posted on 10/18/2016 8:07:49 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Amid one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in generations — and one in which the Republican presidential candidate has claimed that the balloting process if “rigged” — thousands of New Jersey voters are at risk of not having their votes counted in November.
Clerks in at least three Republican-heavy counties have reported that hundreds of mail-in ballots were erroneously returned to voters instead of being delivered to the county election boards.
The problem is with new Post Office equipment that was unable to properly read the mailing address on some — but not all — ballot envelopes mailed by voters.
Voters and county election officials began noticing the problem in late September, prompting counties to send out subsequent batches of newly designed mail-in ballots with an updated envelope barcode that postal officials say would prevent the error.
According to Somerset County Clerk Brett Radi, postal officials told him that post office workers were instructed to keep an eye out for mail-in ballots and to place them in a new envelope with the proper election board address rather than returning them to voters. But on Tuesday, Radi said he spoke to a voter who received a returned ballot that she had mailed on Friday. “I am extremely concerned that this happened,” said Radi. Radi is especially worried about voters who “put those ballots in good faith in the mail before going out of the state” for vacation or other reason. Those voters may not discover until after the election that their ballots were returned — and then it will be too late.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj1015.com ...
If not, why not?
"Mistakes" were made? Right...
THIS MUST STOP!!!!
I don’t know what Vinny thinks, but I know what I think. . . we should END early voting and END mail-in voting, excepting the military, and that should be heavily scrutinized by an outside agency. Our electoral system has too many holes.
Hey, it’s the USPS. “Why?” isn’t in their lexicon.
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