By Brooke Mallory, OAN Staff
Thursday, September 12, 2024 2:07 PM
Ballots for the first general election of the 2024 presidential election will be sent out in less than two months until November 5th.Number As the mail arrives, Alabama officials began distributing it to absentee voters on Wednesday, but some states are starting to experience problems with the mail.
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According to AP NewsDistribution of absentee ballots in North Carolina was supposed to begin last Friday, but was delayed after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) filed a lawsuit to have his name removed from the ballot.
After dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Republican candidate Donald Trump, he filed similar lawsuits in other battleground states.
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“We're prepared,” said Sharon Long, deputy clerk with the Jefferson County Circuit Court Clerk's Office.
“We're excited to announce that early voting will begin in several states next week,” said Justin Robach, Ottawa County Clerk in Michigan. Associated Press His office will be preparing for the start of voting in his state.
“At this point in the election cycle, we feel like it's 'game on.' We're ready and prepared to do this,” he said. “We've done our best to educate voters and communicate with them so they feel confident in the process.”
But in Kansas, the state's secretary of state argued in a letter to the U.S. Postmaster General that roughly 1,000 Kansas primary voters were disenfranchised because ballots mailed before Election Day in August arrived at county offices more than three days after the deadline or did not bear the required postmark.
Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, who is also the state's elections chief, informed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy that there was reason to be “deeply concerned” about “a continuing pattern of problematic behavior in the processing and handling of ballots by the United States Postal Service.” He sent an identical letter to all six Kansas congressmen.
According to Schwab, 18% of Kansans exercised their constitutional right to vote in the August primary by casting a ballot by mail. He claims that about 1,000 of those votes, or 2% of all mail-in ballots cast in Kansas, were not counted “due to a clerical error by the post office.”
“We urge you to take immediate, concrete corrective steps to address the ongoing performance issues with USPS election mail services,” they added. “Failure to do so risks limiting voter participation and confidence in the election process.”
Additionally, Schwab and other Kansas election officials said some ballots arrived on time but were not postmarked and therefore could not be counted under Kansas law, and that even though the postal service handled ballots before the mail-in deadline, Schwab told DeJoy that local postal workers told election officials they were not allowed to postmark them later.
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