{"id":29468,"date":"2020-10-20T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29468"},"modified":"2020-10-20T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:40:05","slug":"texans-who-requested-mail-in-ballots-are-choosing-to-vote-in-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/10\/20\/texans-who-requested-mail-in-ballots-are-choosing-to-vote-in-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans Who Requested Mail-In Ballots Are Choosing To Vote In Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w3.cdn.anvato.net\/player\/prod\/v3\/anvload.html?key=eyJtIjoiY2JzIiwidiI6IjQ4MDIwNDMiLCJhbnZhY2siOiI1VkQ2RXlkNmRqZXdiQ21Od0JGbnNKajE3WUF2R1J3bCIsInNoYXJlTGluayI6Imh0dHBzOi8vY2JzbG9jLmFsLzJINnMySzAiLCJwbHVnaW5zIjp7ImNvbXNjb3JlIjp7ImNsaWVudElkIjoiMzAwMDAyMyIsImMzIjoiRGFsbGFzLmNic2xvY2FsLmNvbSJ9LCJkZnAiOnsiY2xpZW50U2lkZSI6eyJhZFRhZ1VybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vcHViYWRzLmcuZG91YmxlY2xpY2submV0L2dhbXBhZC9hZHM%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%3D%3D\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Denton County Elections Administrator Frank Phillips said Monday his county is seeing an unusually large number of people surrendering their mail-in ballot at their polling location so they can vote in-person instead, and are also hand-delivering their mail ballots to his office.<\/p>\n<p>Tarrant County Elections Administrator Heider Garcia said the county is also seeing some people surrendering mail ballots to vote in person.<\/p>\n<p>Neither had specific numbers so far.<\/p>\n<p>CBS 11 has not heard back yet from Dallas and Collin Counties about this situation.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, more Texans requested mail-in ballots, but concerns over the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s ability to deliver the ballots on-time has some people changing their minds. More at <a href=\"https:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/2020\/10\/19\/texans-mail-in-ballots-vote-in-person\/\">CBS Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29469\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Texas-Votes-In-Person-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Texas-Votes-In-Person-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Texas-Votes-In-Person.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM)\u00a0\u2013 Denton County Elections Administrator Frank Phillips said Monday his county is seeing an unusually large number of people surrendering their mail-in ballot at their polling location so they can vote in-person instead, and are also hand-delivering their mail ballots to his office. Tarrant County Elections Administrator Heider Garcia said the county is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29470,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29468\/revisions\/29470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}