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Pat Pelot first voted in the 1940s and the 96-year-old has no plans to stop voting. For November’s general election, Pelot will use a mail-in ballot.
“When that ballot comes in, it’s so much more comfortable sitting down at the desk, filling it out, and sending it out,” she explained.
Charlie KeeganMost of Pelot’s neighbors at Olathe-based Aberdeen Village rely on mail-in ballots.
This month, Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab announced elections offices couldn’t include roughly 1,000 mail-in ballots in the primary election tabulation because they arrived too late or did not have a postmark .
Kansas law allows election offices to receive mail-in ballots three days after election day so long as they have a postmark on or before election day.
Schwab sent a letter to the US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy asking for an explanation, and for assurances mail-in ballots would arrive on time in November.
DeJoy announced online Thursday there would be a “heroic” effort to ensure mail-in ballots make it to election office on time. He recommends voters place their ballots in the mail seven days before they’re due.