USPS says Pennsylvania mail ballots may not be delivered on time, state warns of 'overwhelming'....

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USPS says Pennsylvania mail ballots may not be delivered on time, and state warns of ‘overwhelming’ risk to voters

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-mail-voting-deadlines-post-office-lawsuit-20200813.html

The United States Postal Service warned Pennsylvania that mail ballots may not be delivered on time to be counted because the state’s deadlines are too tight for its “delivery standards,” casting fresh doubt on Pennsylvania’s ability to conduct much of the 2020 election by mail.

The warning came in a July 29 letter from Thomas J. Marshall, general counsel and executive vice president for the Postal Service, to Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, whose department oversees elections. That letter was made public for the first time late Thursday in a filing the Pennsylvania Department of State submitted to the state Supreme Court, in which it asked the court to order that mail ballots be counted as long as they are received up to three days after the Nov. 3 election.

If the court agrees, it will increase the likelihood that the results of the presidential race between President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden won’t be known for days after the election.

The post office’s letter to the state, which came as President Donald Trump has mounted false attacks on mail voting, warned that “certain deadlines for requesting and casting mail-in ballots are incongruous with the Postal Service’s delivery standards.”


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[still_one]

1. Then vote early and vote in person. This is a disgrace, we are being warned

Register to vote, and vote early

[progressive nobody]

4. As far as I am aware we don't have early voting.

[still_one]

5. Pennsylvania has a Democratic Governor, so he better ensure there are adequate polling places

It is really sad that Pennsylvania doesn’t have early voting

[progressive nobody]

6. +1000

[yortsed snacilbuper]

2. I voted in the primary in PA by mail,

So I'm already signed up to vote in the Presidential by mail, I'll have to study my options.

[Peregrine Took]

3. I will be more than happy to drop mine off at a designated spot

be it the Main Post Office location (as we used to do by midnight on income tax night) or where ever to take the burden off the USPS.