Are you a PNW voter who usually returns your ballot via U.S. Mail? Switch to a drop box to ensure it counts this year!

Citizens of Washington and Oregon, here’s an important public service announcement about the upcoming local and state elections this November: To ensure that your ballot counts this year, it’s vital that you return it using a drop box so that it goes straight to your county elections office. Do not return your ballot through the United States Postal Service — there’s a real risk it won’t receive a timely postmark.

This is sadly what years of sabotage by Louis DeJoy and his minions have led to: a postal service that we can no longer rely on for timely delivery of essential mail.

Pacific Northwesterners are accustomed to voting at home and being able to return their ballot by mailing it back to their county elections office. We’ve been doing it for decades. Washington has always accepted ballots postmarked through Election Day, and more recently, Oregon has followed suit. However, ballots postmarked after Election Day cannot be accepted. And with postmarking delays becoming common, elections officials are now gravely concerned that they’ll be forced to reject ballots that voters completed and brought to a post office on time because of USPS’ incompetence:

Washington voters who mail their ballots on Election Day this November, or even days in advance, could have their ballots thrown out as a result of compounding cost-cutting measures by the United States Postal Service leading to postmarking delays, local and state election officials are warning.