(WLUK) — Election officials at the state and local levels are calling on the United States Postal Service to speed up delivery of absentee ballots during future Wisconsin elections.
It comes after hundreds of voters’ ballots sent in for the April election arrived too late, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
The WEC said that prompted concern about the delivery speed of mail-in ballots.
“There was a lot of complaints that came from election clerks, municipal clerks, that were saying that it took a long time for ballots to return. Some of them were late in being returned,” WEC member Marge Bostelmann said.
A recent letter from the WEC to USPS said two-thirds of Wisconsin clerks reported problems with receiving mail-in ballots during last month’s election. Bostelmann said it was the most complaints the WEC has ever gotten about late delivery of ballots.
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