Election officials are expressing concerns with President Donald Trump’s proposed mail voting rules, with some saying they could lead to delays and disenfranchisement.
CNN reported Wednesday that some election officials said vendors told them there’s not enough time to print the millions of envelopes that have to be redesigned because of the rule, and court filings show that it’s possible that there’s not enough paper stock to do so.
In addition, training and authorizing local election administrators in a portal set up to upload lists of mail voters would take thousands of hours, CNN wrote.
“We’re weeks away from ballots going out and USPS still can’t answer basic questions about how this is going to work. Clearly they don’t even know,” Amanda Gonzalez, the clerk of Jefferson County, Colorado, told CNN.
These rules face legal challenges, but Gonzalez said that “even when we prevail and it’s not implemented, the uncertainty being created by all of this is itself an election risk.”
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