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County clerk warns DeWitt County voters about new postal postmark timing for mail ballots
Summary
County Clerk Harris told the DeWitt County Board that the postal service no longer applies same-day postmarks at dropoff and urged voters to either hand ballots to a postal clerk for a same-day postmark or drop them at the clerk's office at least seven days before an election; county will publicize the change.
County Clerk Harris told the DeWitt County Board on Jan. 22 that the U.S. Postal Service has changed how postmarks are applied, creating a risk that mail-in ballots could receive a postmark several days after voters drop them off. "Postmarks are not applied until the mail is processed, which could take up to 2–3 additional days," Clerk Harris said, and she urged voters to "drop off their ballot at least 7 days before the election" or hand it to a postal employee and request a same-day postmark.
Clerk Harris said the county's election vendor will mail the first batch of vote-by-mail ballots on Feb. 5 and those ballots will not include a notice of the change; any ballots requested after Feb. 5 will be mailed from the clerk's office with an informational notice. She said voters may also return ballots in person to the clerk's office as late as 7:00 p.m. on election day. To spread the word the clerk has contacted the local radio station and the Clinton Journal and posted notices on the county website and the clerk's Facebook page.
