Frustrated election officials raked a U.S. Postal Service representative over the coals Tuesday, telling him that his agency hasn’t been delivering ballots on time, and the situation isn’t improving enough despite repeated requests.
“You have to be better. The actual elections are being determined by these delays,” Bryan Caskey, Kansas’ election director, told Steve Carter, the USPS official in charge of election and government mail programs.
Members of NASED gather like this twice a year, and this time, with the presidential election looming, operational concerns over mail voting were top of mind for nearly all the attendees. These are the people who know election administration best, and if this is what they’re worried about, everyone should start paying attention.