{"id":29511,"date":"2020-10-24T10:18:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T15:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29511"},"modified":"2020-10-24T10:18:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T15:18:36","slug":"postal-service-to-take-extraordinary-efforts-to-find-marion-county-missing-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/10\/24\/postal-service-to-take-extraordinary-efforts-to-find-marion-county-missing-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service to take \u2018extraordinary efforts\u2019 to find Marion County missing ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ygVDBE8AIXQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) \u2014 Postal workers in the Greater Indiana District said beginning Monday they will take extraordinary measures to find missing ballots.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the U.S. Postal Service continues its investigation into reports of missing absentee ballots across Marion County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly what happened,\u201d said acting district manager Christie Johnson-Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson-Kennedy said the Postal Service is looking closely at all of its processes from printing to inception to find out where there may be possible gaps.<\/p>\n<p>The post office\u2019s Greater Indiana District in a Friday night email provided details on those \u201cextraordinary measures\u201d both to find ballots and to help voters returned their completed ballots:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWith a record number of people across the country voting by mail, the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s number one priority between now and the November election is the secure, timely delivery of the nation\u2019s Election Mail.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Consistent with practices in past election cycles, the use of extraordinary measures beyond the normal course of operations is authorized and expected to be executed by local management between October 26 and November 24 to accelerate the delivery of ballots, when the Postal Service is able to identify the mailpiece as a ballot. Indianapolis District postal management will offer drive-by ballot drop service at our downtown location beginning October 31 and through November 3. We will look at other high traffic locations to determine if there is a need for additional drive by drops.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Personal Protective Equipment and social distancing procedures will be required for both postal employees and customers as we work to provide this service for our community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>We will provide updated information, including hours, as Election Day gets closer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wishtv.com\/news\/election\/postal-service-to-take-extraordinary-efforts-to-find-marion-county-missing-ballots\/\">WISHTV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29512\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Missing-Mail-in-Ballots-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Missing-Mail-in-Ballots-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Missing-Mail-in-Ballots-86x54.jpg 86w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Missing-Mail-in-Ballots-120x74.jpg 120w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Missing-Mail-in-Ballots-378x237.jpg 378w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Missing-Mail-in-Ballots.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) \u2014 Postal workers in the Greater Indiana District said beginning Monday they will take extraordinary measures to find missing ballots. This comes as the U.S. Postal Service continues its investigation into reports of missing absentee ballots across Marion County. \u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly what happened,\u201d said acting district manager Christie Johnson-Kennedy. Johnson-Kennedy said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29511","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\/29511","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=29511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29513,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29511\/revisions\/29513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}