Letter: Make sure

Published 12:15 am Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Please remind voters to mail ballots early to make sure they get counted. See National Public Radio’s “Voters are advised to return their ballots early because of mail delay concerns” segment on Sept. 20.

Please look at the Long Beach Peninsula Facebook pages about mail delays here. Too few employees to handle the volume, which will increase substantially due to the election. Utah’s 2nd Congressional District had a postmark problem with ballots that were sent to Las Vegas for postmarking, which resulted in the ballots being postmarked too late to be counted. That could easily happen here, where the mail is sent to Portland to be postmarked.

In Utah, the results of the election were protested and sent to the state Supreme Court for resolution, a process that took about two months. If that were to happen in this community and others around the country, it could throw the election into chaos.

ROBIN HANNA

Ocean Park, Washington