Tribal absentee vote ballots returned as Election Day arrives Nov. 17, 2015

Umatilla Tribal Elections 2015. A Post Office Glitch has returned absentee ballots for those Tribal members who live off the Indian Reservation. Mine was not returned, so my vote is in for the Elections. Below is what went down on Nov. 14, 2015 & is causing drama from off Reservation voters...,

"POTENTIAL ACTION NEEDED TODAY FOR ABSENTEE VOTERS" / TO: Tribal Members Voting by Absentee Ballot. / FROM: Tribal Election Commission. / DATE: 11.14.15.

"The Tribal Election Commission has been informed that several absentee ballots mailed to the Commission’s Post Office box were returned to the voter due to a glitch in the Post Office computer system. The Commission does not know how many absentee ballots were returned. To ensure that those returned absentee ballots can be received by Election Day, the Election Commission encourages absentee voters who have had their ballots returned to resend their absentee ballots by overnight mail from any US Post Office at the Commission’s expense. You must go to a Post Office in person, place a regular 48 cent stamp on the envelope, and request delivery for “postage due-overnight.” You must mail your absentee ballot by this method today, Saturday, November 14, in order for your absentee ballot to be received at the Election Commission Post Office box by Election Day. Of course, any Tribal member casting an absentee ballot may do so by delivering the ballot to the absentee vote collection boxes at the Nixyaawii Governance Center on or before Election Day, November 17."

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