The US Postal Service (USPS) agreed to treat ballots mailed in the Georgia Senate’s January 5 election as express mail, according to a recent report.
The USPS reportedly struck a deal with civil rights groups, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Vote Forward, to treat the ballots still in the processing factories within three days of January 5 as delivery the next day.
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Under the agreement, the agency will forward filled ballots in Atlanta directly to vote counters, conduct more robust scans for lost ballots and track results daily, The Washington Post reported this week.
The deal effectively avoids a major process ahead of the two January 5 elections that will determine which party will have a majority in the Senate. The plaintiffs said they would not push for further operational changes if the USPS delayed the deal.
The results of the two run-off elections between Republicans from Georgia Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler against Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, respectively, will determine which party will control the Senate in 2021.
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