US Postal Service plans to downsize a mail hub in Nevada. What does that mean for mail-in ballots?
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 4, 2024
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A U.S. Postal Service plan to downsize a regional mail hub in Reno and move package and letter processing to Sacramento, California, has members of Nevada's congressional delegation and the state's top election administrator worried about service delays and mail-in ballot handling.
The elected officials point to a lack of transparency in what Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has cast as a money-saving move, and say they're concerned that mail service will be snarled by the hourslong roundtrip drive over the Sierra Nevada.
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