State election directors from across the country voiced serious concerns to a top U.S. Postal Service official Tuesday that the system won't be able to handle an expected crush of mail-in ballots in the November election.Related video above: Lawsuit argues mail ballots with dating errors should count in PennsylvaniaSteven Carter, manager of election and government programs for the postal service, attempted to reassure the directors at a meeting in Minneapolis that the system's Office of Inspector General will publish an election mail report next week containing 바카라 게임 웹사이트�encouraging" performance numbers for this year so far.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The data that that we바카라 게임 웹사이트�re seeing showing improvements in the right direction," Carter told a conference of the National Association of State Election Directors. "And I think the OIG report is especially complimentary of how we바카라 게임 웹사이트�re handling the election now.바카라 게임 웹사이트�But state election directors stressed to Carter that they're still worried that too many ballots won바카라 게임 웹사이트�t be delivered in time to be counted in November. They based their fears on past problems and a disruptive consolidation of postal facilities across the country that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has put on hold until after the elections.Monica Evans, executive director of the District of Columbia Board of Elections, recounted how she never received her mail ballot for her own June primary. She ended up voting in person.바카라 게임 웹사이트�We had, at last count, over 80 ballots that were timely mailed as early as May for our June 4 primary election,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Evans said, noting that her office could have accepted them as late as June 14, but they still arrived too late. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�We followed up and we just kept getting, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�We don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t know what happened. We don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t know what happened.바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트�While former President Donald Trump has complained without foundation that fraudulent mailed ballots cost him a second term in 2020, mail-in voting has become a key component of each party바카라 게임 웹사이트�s strategy to maximize the turnout of their voters in 2024. Now Republicans, sometimes including Trump, see it as necessary for an election that is likely to be decided by razor-thin margins in a handful of swing states. Republicans once were at least as likely as Democrats to vote by mail, but Trump changed the dynamics in 2020 when he began to argue against it months before voting began.Bryan Caskey, the elections director for Kansas who's also the association's incoming president, asked Carter to consider a hypothetical jurisdiction that has a 95% on-time rate for mail deliveries, which he said is better than what almost all states are getting.바카라 게임 웹사이트�That still means that in the state that sends out 100,000 ballots, that바카라 게임 웹사이트�s 5,000 pissed-off, angry voters that are mad about the mail service,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Caskey said, adding, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Actual elections are being determined by these delays, and I just want to make sure that you바카라 게임 웹사이트�re hearing why we바카라 게임 웹사이트�re so upset.바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트�It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s totally understandable,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Carter said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�The frustration is understandable.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The association's current president, Mandy Vigil, the elections director for New Mexico, said in an interview afterward that she appreciated that the service was at least willing to engage with the state officials, but that she's concerned that there isn't enough time before the general election.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I think that we are at a place where we really need them to pay attention,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Vigil said. "You know, we바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve been voicing our concerns since last November. But we just aren바카라 게임 웹사이트�t seeing the changes as we바카라 게임 웹사이트�re working through our primary elections. And when it comes to November, like, we need to see a difference.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Nineteen senators wrote to DeJoy last month asking the postmaster general about the service바카라 게임 웹사이트�s policies and plans to prepare for the 2024 election cycle. They pointed out how the first regional consolidation, in Virginia last year, led to delivery delays that led some local election officials there to direct residents to bypass the mail and place their primary election ballots in designated drop boxes. They noted that Virginia's on-time delivery rate fell below 72% for fiscal 2024, or over 15% below the national average.Other consolidations have been blamed for degraded service in Oregon, Virginia, Texas and Missouri. The consolidation has also created concern among lawmakers in Utah, where state law requires that ballots be mailed from within Utah, but the postal service now processes mail from some counties in Nevada after moving some operations from Provo to Las Vegas. The entire Minnesota and North Dakota congressional delegations wrote to DeLoy last month after an inspector general's audit documented nearly 131,000 missing or delayed pieces of mail at six post offices over the course of just two days.DeJoy paused the cost-cutting consolidations until January 2025 in the wake of bipartisan criticism, but lawmakers want a commitment that the resumption won't lead to further delivery delays.