Pennsylvania Wants Votes Postmarked On Election Day To Count After
Pennsylvania asked the state’s Supreme Court in a court filing Thursday to extend the state deadline for mail-in ballots amid controversial changes at the U.S. Postal Service under new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, and after the USPS warned Pennsylvania and other states that ballots sent in too close to the deadline might not be delivered in time—and not get counted.
The Pennsylvania government said it would no longer contest a court challenge seeking to extend the mail-in voting deadline—which means ballots will now be counted so long as they’re postmarked by Election Day—because USPS’s changes mark “a significant change to the outlook for voting by mail.”
In a letter sent July 29 to Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, USPS General Counsel Thomas J. Marshall warns “there is a significant risk” that ballots requested and mailed in under the current deadline would “not be returned in time to be counted.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/08/14/pennsylvania-wants-mail-in-votes-postmarked-on-election-day-to-count-after-usps-postal-service-warns-of-delays/#7d761f817396
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