"I think it's just overall chaos,” Santella said in an interview, “and I think there's a lot of problems happening with the Postal Service right now." USPS: ‘Financially unsustainable position’ After questioning by the National Investigative Unit, a spokesman for the postal service acknowledged it has not always followed its own policy to stamp mail with a “legible postmark.”
She’s now part of a lawsuit in a closely-watched congressional race to get it to count, a complaint on behalf of thousands with similar late or missing postmarks. It was postmarked by the post office, she says, three days after she mailed it – and after the June 23 primary election. Voter Jillian Santella, a publicist and founder of One in a Million Media in New York City, said she was “baffled” when she learned her absentee ballot did not count. They are not instances of fraud, but rather failures to get ballots where they need to go. Those are some of the many examples the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit has uncovered of problems across the country with how the postal service handles ballots in the mail, leading to urgent calls to fix the issues before November’s general election. Investigation finds election mail delayed, damaged, discarded Video: Hearst Television National Investigative Unit Postal problems affecting votes “We had over 40 ballots that were returned back to the voters” marked that way, Moorman said, still taken aback by the colossal USPS error of inexplicably not recognizing the county office its carriers deliver to every day. The pre-printed address? The county election office. Dozens more mailed by voters were rejected, stamped by the postal service as ‘return to sender’ – undeliverable. That ballot did not count, the voter disenfranchised by a woefully tardy delivery by the United States Postal Service.Īnother ballot Moorman showed a reporter had been torn nearly in half and would not have counted had the election office not tracked down the voter to cast a new ballot. And we did not get the ballot back until November 30th of 2017” – two elections late. Moorman recently pointed out, “This ballot was for the presidential election in 2016. Holding an absentee ballot envelope in her hand, James City County, Va., Director of Elections Dianna S. Moorman, director of elections for James City County, Va., holds up a ballot delivered by the USPS more than a year late during an interview with Chief National Investigative Correspondent Mark Albert.
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