U.S. Postal Service sends execrable info to Utah residents about mail voting
SALT LAKE CITY — Suppose officials in Utah tell the U.S. Postal Service has sent fraudulent data to Utah voters about the upcoming election, decreasing public self assurance within the carrier’s skill to contend with ballots this three hundred and sixty five days.
The put of commercial of Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox acknowledged the Postal Service mailed a postcard to homes across the grunt ultimate week urging voters “to inquire of your mail-in ballot … not lower than 15 days sooner than Election Day,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
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“All energetic registered voters in Utah automatically receive their ballots within the mail. Folks attain not must inquire of a mail-in pollindividually within the occasion that they’ve previously registered to vote,” Cox acknowledged, arguing that the postcard’s data did not apply in Utah.
Residents be pleased a pair of choices to cast their vote for the Nov. 3 long-established election together with by blueprint of the mail, by depositing their pollat particular descend packing containers, at an in-person early voting put or at an in-person or drive-up voting heart on Election Day.
Suppose officials be pleased inspired programs as adversarial to voting on Election Day to diminish crowds and limit the chance of spreading COVID-19.
The Postal Service has additionally urged voters to come support by-mail ballots a week sooner than Election Day to aid guarantee that they arrive on time however that is more crucial in other states. Officers uncover that the ballots must be received in Utah handiest sometime sooner than the loyal canvass two weeks after Election Day.
County clerks are required to mail ballots to all energetic registered voters the week of Oct. 13. Voters will then be pleased till 5 p.m. on Oct. 23 to register to vote and automatically receive a mail ballot.
“We support voters to grunt ahead by going to vote.utah.gov to verify their registration put of dwelling, register to vote, or change their contend with,” Cox’s put of commercial acknowledged in a assertion.