Voter Alert: Drop Off Ballots It Is Too Late to Use a Mail [Video]

Voters should dump off their ballots given it is doubtful a USPS will broach them in time to be counted. There are usually 4 days to a election, and any list that is not postmarked by Nov. 3, 2020, they will not be counted. In many states, votes will not be tallied if they are not in a choosing bureau by a 3rd.

According to information collected by USA TODAY, Washington D.C., and 21 states will count ballots if they arrive after choosing day. Nonetheless, with a extreme changes instituted given Louis DeJoy became a Post Master General in June, guileless timely smoothness by a mail competence not be a best idea. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson states:

We are too tighten to Election Day, and a right to opinion is too critical to rest on a Postal Service to broach absentee ballots on time.

November 6 Deadline

• If voters’ ballots are postmarked by a 3rd and perceived by a 6th, they will be tallied in Kentucky.
• Kansas and Virginia need a postmark by a finish of business on choosing day. In Kansas, ballots contingency be perceived by 5 p.m. on a 6th, since in Virginia, they contingency be perceived by noon.
• In Massachusetts, a deadline is 5 p.m.
• Pennsylvania’s deadline of Nov 6 has been a theme of a authorised battle, and on Oct 28, a Supreme Court declined to meddle with a state’s choosing rules.

November 9 Deadline

• Iowa and North Dakota need absentee ballots to be postmarked by Nov 2 and perceived by noon on a 9th.
• In West Virginia, list mailed by Nov 3 will be supposed if perceived by a 9th.

November 10 and 12 Deadlines

• Typically, Minnesota’s deadline is a 10th, though due to a sovereign appeals justice sided with Republicans, a secretary of state pronounced ballots nearing after choosing day “are during risk of being invalidated.”
• In Mississippi, Nevada, and New Jersey, ballots postmarked by a 3rd and nearing by a 10th will be counted.
• November 10 is a deadline for ballots to arrive in New York. However, if a list arrives on a 4th, votes will be tallied with or but a postmark.
• North Carolina’s deadline of 5 p.m. on Nov 12 has been litigated. On Oct 28, a Supreme Court motionless to concede ballots to be perceived and counted if they are postmarked on a 3rd.

November 13 Deadline

• Three states will count ballots on Nov 13 if they are postmarked by choosing day. They are Alaska, Maryland, and Ohio.
• Washington D.C. choosing officials will accept ballots on a 13th that were mailed by a 3rd.

November 17 and Later Deadlines

• In Illinois, if ballots are mailed by Nov 3, they have adult to 14 days to arrive before they are deserted — Nov 17.
• Utah expects ballots to be postmarked by Nov 2 and perceived by a day of a county canvass, that is a examination of choosing earnings and a central stipulation of choosing formula by a house of canvassers. In Utah’s biggest counties, a canvass takes place dual weeks after a election, since in a smaller counties, a canvass is one week after Nov 3.
• California and Washington will count ballots after a choosing if they are postmarked on a 3rd and perceived by a 20th and 23rd, respectively.

To establish where to dump off absentee and mail-in ballots, find choosing information on a state’s dot.gov website.

Written by Cathy Milne-Ware

Sources:

Politico: Dems titillate electorate to equivocate mailing ballots in a final week; by Zach Mortellaro
USA Today: Fact check: Mail-in ballots nearing after Election Day will count in some states; by McKenzie Sadeghi

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