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Because more than half the states – including most of the key battlegrounds – don’t provide a grace period for ballots that arrive after Election Day, it is likely 25,000-50,000 ballots nationwide were ultimately rejected because of USPS problems.

While U.S. Postal Service workers likely delivered more than 99.9% of the country’s mail ballots in time to be counted this year, it also appears that tens of thousands were disenfranchised by postal delays.

If you are one of the many people who voted by mail this year, you may be stressing out if your local election officials haven’t officially accepted your ballot yet. But don’t worry, you have a Plan B to make sure your vote is counted. It’s called a provisional ballot. NBCLX’s Chase Cain explains how it works....

The U.S. Postal Service isn’t delivering mail as quickly as it should, but the delays don’t appear significant enough – at this time – to disrupt an election, according to a September test by NBCLX and NBC Owned Television Stations.

A Michigan resident’s apparent joke showing disdain for voting by mail is no laughing matter for one local elections official

Absentee ballots proved to be a popular alternative for the August primary. “We went from being a state where 5% of people vote by absentee to 68% of people voting by absentee,” said Secretary of the State Denise Merrill. After a mix-up with a mailing house and postal delays caused by a tropical storm, some voters didn’t receive their absentee…

Voters in Connecticut should receive applications for absentee ballots in the mail in the next few days.

The partisan war over how voters cast ballots in a pandemic isn’t just leading more Democrats to plan on voting by mail this fall; it’s also leading far more Democrats than Republicans to heed United State Postal Service warnings to play it safe and get ballots in the mail well before Election Day.

NBCLX’s Chase Cain exposes the truth about six circulating vote-by-mail myths ahead of the 2020 election.

With both sides calling this the most important presidential election in decades, you want to make certain that your vote is counted. NBCLX’s Clark Fouraker has a checklist of the five most important things you should do to make sure your ballot doesn’t get disqualified this November.

NBC CT Investigates looks into the concerns of a Newington voter who reached out to us over how his absentee ballot was handled in the primary election.

The House Oversight Committee intends to subpoena Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

The Attorney General has been warning of ballot burglars. Sounds scary, right? But as NBCLX Chase Cain uncovered, these election boogie men are more fantasy than fact.

Many Americans are confused about voting by mail and have fears that using the mail to cast your ballot will generate voter fraud. Debra Cleaver, founder and CEO of VOTEAMERICA, a non-profit that helps Americans vote by mail, joined NBCLX to debunk some mail voting myths and sort through conflicting messages on absentee voting.

Len Besthoff takes a look at the process of voting by absentee ballot in Connecticut.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced Tuesday that the USPS is halting some operational changes to mail delivery until after the November election. The abrupt reversal comes as more than 20 states announced they would be suing to stop the changes.

Many Black voters are skeptical of voting by mail even as states seek to expand that option during the coronavirus pandemic.

The president’s early morning tweet suggesting that the 2020 presidential election be delayed over concerns about mail-in ballot fraud sent waves through the political world Thursday. NBC Connecticut spoke with local officials to get reaction and clarify whether the president can delay, postpone or cancel the election. Secretary of the State Denise Merrill was unequivocal that the November election will…

President Trump’s tweets about delaying the November election got a lot of people in Connecticut talking.

Given the possibility of an uptick in coronavirus infections this fall, Connecticut’s House of Representatives on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to give all voters the option to vote by absentee ballot and avoid the polls. Lawmakers are also considering a wide-ranging police accountability bill during the surreal special session where members donned face masks and voted by computer, most sequestered...