WABE: Georgia leaders worry mail delays could cause many absentee ballots to arrive too late to count

Stanley Dunlap of The Georgia Recorder reports on bipartisan concerns that persistent mail delays could affect Georgia absentee ballots.

In a rare bipartisan consensus about Georgia’s election process, both Republican and Democratic leaders agree that persistent mail delivery delays in the state could cost voters who use absentee ballots their chance to be counted on Election Day this November.

The stakes are high, as Georgia is again considered a swing state that will likely help decide who will be the next U.S. president.

Georgia’s county election officers joined several dozen of their counterparts from across the nation this month who are raising serious concerns about the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to properly deliver absentee ballots on time in the Nov. 5 general election.

The National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors sent a letter Wednesday to U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy that listed a range of complaints about postal service processing facilities, inadequate staff training as well as potentially lost and delayed election mail that could put eligible voters at risk of having their registration canceled, or absentee ballots not delivered to local elections offices in time to have the votes counted.

Read more at WABE.