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We need more drop boxes for elections

September 11, 2020

My first-class mail deliveries are slowing down. The postmaster general says the automatic sorting equipment is not going to be returned to service during the Trump administration as Louis DeJoy verified in testimony. Then too, there are positions that the USPS has not filled as well as there being more employees absent due to COVID-19. The president is adamant about refusing to fund due to the excessive costs caused by COVID-19. So, I think it is pointless to count on a great many votes being delivered in time to be counted. I am elderly and diabetic. In-person voting is problematic.  I just went online to see what the various states were planning. Of course, Delaware is holding a ridiculously late primary Sept. 15, which means it will take weeks to print up the ballots. So Delaware is listed as mailing the ballots to voters who have requested them by Oct. 30 for the Nov. 3 General Election. Come on! Even if Delaware gets its act together and mails the ballots out by mid-October, even with that online tracking system we can check, what do I do if my vote still isn’t received in time?

So I asked about ballot dropboxes like some other states do it. I was told I could drive over to the Department of Elections in Georgetown at 119 N. Race St., phone 302-856-5367. There will be no other dropboxes, which should be located (in my humble opinion) in every town leading up to the election, and no ballot dropboxes at the polls on Election Day. Citizens should be contacting the Office of the State Election Commissioner now at 302-739-4498, asking for an earlier official mailing deadline to the voters and more than one dropbox per county in places where they can be readily accessed before it is too late. Otherwise, Delaware is failing to protect its citizenry from Donald J. Trump’s and Louis DeJoy’s attacks on our right to vote.

Patricia M. Williams
Lewes
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