Highland Village man’s absentee election ballot returned for more postage

by PegNews wire

While a postal service spokesperson says North Texas carriers are being instructed to go ahead and deliver absentee ballots with only a single 42 cent stamp affixed, most area ballots are going to tip the scales at well over the single-stamp weight.

This one oughta get it there.

Thus, some mailed-in presidential election ballots - like the one sent in by Calvin Justice, of Highland Village - are "slipping through the cracks" and geting returned to senders for additional postage.

Which would be a problem, of course, if the ballot got sent out right before the election and there was not enough time for the remailed mail to reach its destination.

My advice: if it absolutely, positively has to get there on time, go ahead and slap two stamps on the envelope. Our nation's future is probably worth it. (Crossing fingers.)

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John McClelland, says:

And this is why mail in ballots should be free to mail. The government should provide return envelopes with postage paid. Paying for your own postage is essentially a poll tax.