The U.S. Postal Service’s internal watchdog issued in a report this week detailing a number of concerns about how prepared the service is for the upcoming November elections in which a record number of Americans are expected to vote by mail, with one Democratic lawmaker seizing the findings as further evidence of the need for reforms “to prevent serious election mail delays and voting suppression.”
The audit from the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) was released Monday and probed the service’s “readiness for timely processing of election and political mail.” Among the findings were that 1.6 million pieces of election mail weren’t delivered on time from April through June, and over 1 million primary ballots were at “high risk” of not getting back to election boards on time to be counted because they were sent out within seven days of an election.
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