Tens of Thousands of June Mail-In Ballots Tossed, Many Due to USPS’s New Postmark Policy

Tens of Thousands of June Mail-In Ballots Tossed, Many Due to USPS’s New Postmark Policy

24 July 2026/SF Politics/Leanne Maxwell (SFist.com) More than a third of the 148,000 rejected mail-in ballots from California’s June primary were discarded because they were postmarked late, which experts largely attribute to a recent change in the US Postal Service’s postmarking policy. As the Associated Press reports, nearly 150,000 California… Continue reading

Trump Suffers Rare Supreme Court Setback on Mail-in Ballot Due Dates

Courts Klaus Marre 06/29/26 (whowhatwhy.org) The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Mississippi law that allows properly postmarked ballots received up to five days after Election Day to still be counted. Donald Trump didn’t take the news well. Donald Trump reacted to a rare Supreme Court loss on Monday with a… Continue reading