Dunshee puts ballot postage promise to the test

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

EVERETT — Hans Dunshee mailed his ballot without postage to test whether it would reach Snohomish County elections officials.

It didn’t.

After his ballot was returned as undelivered through the mail, the county councilman has doubts that all ballots will get counted.

“It can’t be just me,” Dunshee said. “I’m fine. I’m going to get my ballot in. I just worry about other people.”

Because of their extra weight, this year’s longer-than-normal ballots require 68 cents of postage, 21 cents more than a first-class stamp.

Dunshee earlier this fall pushed for a council resolution urging the county Auditor’s Office to advertise that ballots still would be delivered with insufficient postage or no stamp at all.

The county and the U.S. Postal Service already had an agreement to that effect in place. It wasn’t widely advertised, though.

http://www.heraldnet.com/news/dunshee-puts-ballot-postage-promise-to-the-test/

[iemitsu]

1. How come his ballot was returned then?

[BlueCaliDem]

4. He was testing whether the U.S.P.S. would deliver insufficient postage or no postage stamp at all.

They're supposed to deliver anyway, but in that councilman's case, they didn't. They returned it.

Due to the heavier ballot in CA, I had to buy $0.68 cent postage for my ballot, and instructed my group to make sure they did, too. I don't want insufficient postage to either have my ballot not be delivered or to hurt a struggling USPS when tens of millions of ballots in CA shortchange the postal service.

[LisaM]

2. Ugh.

This is one of the reasons I hate vote by mail here in Washington. The postage should be franked.

[Wounded Bear]

3. That's why I used a drop box...

Really, the ballots should include a postage paid return envelope. Wouldn't cost that much, I think.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Likewise

But then there's one not too far from my house.

[marybourg]

6. In AZ they do. nt.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Yeah, but it is not universal there...

Here in WA all ballots are VBM.