USPS failed to deliver ballots from one Seattle mail drop box

[RandySF]

Ballots dated before the Nov. 7 general election return deadline sat uncounted in one Seattle mail drop box until voters complained to King County. Now, a week after the deadline, at least 85 ballots are being added to the count as some Seattle City Council candidates sit within a few hundred votes of their opponents.

Voters who dropped off ballots at a mailbox on 15th Avenue East and East John Street became concerned when their ballots were not counted when they checked the King County Elections ballot tracker. After voters raised the issue with the county, they were told that an outbound mailbox had not been cleared since mid-October.

“After learning of this, we immediately reached to USPS to look into what happened,” Halei Watkins, communications director for King County Elections, wrote in an email Tuesday.

According to Watkins, the county was unaware of any issue until voters reached out Monday. Then, USPS checked the box and delivered 85 ballots to the county on Tuesday to be processed.



https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/usps-failed-to-deliver-ballots-from-one-seattle-mailbox/

[Meadowoak]

1. Exactly why I vote in person. Never missed a vote in 40 years.

[pnwmom]

4. All our voting is by mail or ballot box and it works very well.

We can go online and make sure our ballots were checked in and counted. In this case, the election counting was still ongoing when people saw online that their ballots hadn't been checked in yet, and contacted the office.

This isn't a perfect system but it's designed to correct for mistakes. And it worked.

[Silent Type]

2. Glad officials allowed votes.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I likewise vote in person.

I live in New Mexico, and we have lots of advance voting opportunities.