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Elections office reports 592,253 precinct-card mailings; vendor and USPS issues left some pieces postage-due, office to send follow-up letters
Summary
Cobb County elections staff told the board that about 592,253 precinct cards were mailed as a courtesy, but vendor and USPS processing left over 2,000 cards returned with postage-due stickers; staff will send county-postage letters first to District 2 voters and then to District 4.
Director Fall updated the board on a countywide precinct-card mailing and subsequent return-mail issues that affected delivery for some voters.
The elections vendor mailed 592,253 precinct cards, Director Fall said; the vendor's scan records with USPS showed 592,299 pieces, a discrepancy of 54. The director said the vendor ran addresses through USPS databases including the National Change of Address (NCOA) file and identified just over 38,000 records that required forwarding service; the vendor added postage for forwarding on those pieces. Director Fall said that when a vendor uses a nonprofit prepaid mailer (a lower-rate class),…
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