NEW: U.S. Postal Service warns at least two key swing states that their absentee voting rules are “incongruous” with the agency’s mail delivery service standards—and may result in uncounted ballots.
Rosemary King, right, holds a sign as a few dozen people gather in front of the United States Post Office to protest recent changes to the USPS under new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, Aug. 11, 2020 in Midland, Mich.
“Under our reading of your state's election laws … certain state-law requirements and deadlines appear to be incompatible with the Postal Service's delivery standards and the recommended timeframe,” Marshall wrote, according to one of the letters made public in a court filing Thursday.
The remarkable extension request was prompted by Marshall's letter sent two weeks earlier warning Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kim Boockvar that the state’s absentee voting rules “are incongruous with the Postal Service's delivery standards,” effectively posing the risk of inadvertently disenfranchising some voters.
Eric Severson holds a sign as a few dozen people gather in front of the United States Post Office to protest recent changes to the U.S. Postal Service under new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, Aug. 11, 2020 in Midland, Mich.
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