{"id":1582222,"date":"2022-08-01T08:02:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T12:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582222"},"modified":"2022-08-01T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T12:02:16","slug":"usps-makes-announcement-on-mail-in-ballots-ahead-of-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usps-makes-announcement-on-mail-in-ballots-ahead-of-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Makes Announcement on Mail-In Ballots Ahead of Midterm Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fusps-makes-announcement-on-mail-in-ballots-ahead-of-midterm-elections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. Postal Service (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-usps\">USPS<\/a>) confirmed it has created a division that will oversee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mail-in-ballots\">mail-in ballots<\/a> in future elections.<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne Marshall, executive director of the newly created Election and Government Mail Services, said that it will\u00a0oversee \u201celection mail strike teams\u201d in local communities to deal with possible problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are fully committed to the secure and timely delivery of the nation\u2019s election mail,\u201d she told media outlets on July 27.<\/p>\n<p>Several months ago, the Biden administration requested\u00a0$5 billion to support the USPS\u2019s mail-in voting operations over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis proposal expands on the essential public services that the Postal Service provides to the American people and will also help to relieve budget strain on local election offices across the country,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/budget\/2022\/03\/white-house-looks-to-give-usps-5b-to-support-election-mail-over-next-decade\/\">administration wrote<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes policies to make \u201cofficial ballot materials free to mail and reducing the cost of other election-related mail for jurisdictions and voters\u201d while \u201cenhancing the Postal Service\u2019s ability to securely and expeditiously deliver and receive mail in underserved areas,\u201d the White House said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The USPS\u00a0 claimed it delivered 97.9 percent of ballots from voters to election officials within three days, and 99.89 percent of ballots were delivered within seven days, during the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service is sending guidance letters to election officials in each state and territory this week.\u00a0So far, nearly 40 million ballots have been mailed to and from voters during primary elections.<\/p>\n<h2>Reliability and Fraud<\/h2>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-says-mail-in-voting-is-the-biggest-threat-to-reelection_3394686.html\">President Donald Trump<\/a> and some Republicans have said that mail-in ballots invite fraud and are unreliable. Numerous lawsuits were filed in the wake of the 2020 election over the ballots, drop boxes, and related policies, while some GOP-controlled legislatures have tightened rules around absentee voting since then.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, former Democrat President Jimmy Carter and former White House chief of staff James Baker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/democrats-backpedal-on-voting-by-mail_3522744.html\">released<\/a> a report (<a href=\"https:\/\/ucdenver.instructure.com\/courses\/3034\/files\/378056?module_item_id=188418\">pdf<\/a>) that found mail-in and \u201cabsentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud\u201d while adding that \u201cvote-buying schemes are far more difficult to detect when citizens vote by mail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But years later, Carter in May 2020\u2014months before the election\u2014released a statement that called on states to expand mail-in voting due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo address this threat,\u201d the statement said, \u201cThe Carter Center urges federal and state governments to expand access to vote-by-mail options and to provide adequate funding as quickly as possible to allow for the additional planning, preparation, equipment, and public messaging that will be required.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, USPS officials confirmed they were investigating two separate incidents where mail-in ballots were found in Southern California. A woman allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/postal-service-investigating-after-mail-in-ballots-found-discarded-on-hollywood-sidewalk_4457151.html\">found<\/a> a box of ballots on a sidewalk in Hollywood in May, while a man in San Diego <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mail-in-ballots-found-discarded-along-california-freeway_4537948.html\">found<\/a> ballots discarded near an interstate.<\/p>\n<p>The USPS has not responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) confirmed it has created a division that will oversee mail-in ballots in future elections.Adrienne Marshall, executive director of the newly created Election and Government Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1444048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}