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Edgy and anxious voters in Wayne and Oakland counties want to know where their absentee ballots are.
Llocal election officials in Wayne and Oakland counties have been inundated with inquiries from voters who haven't receive ballots, George Hunter of The Detroit News reports:
Longtime clerks say they’ve never seen so many problems with sending out or getting back absentee ballots to voters. In Northville, Canton and White Lake, clerks say they mailed out the ballots only to find out many didn’t get to their destination.
“People are much more frantic about this election,” Canton Township Clerk Terry Bennett said. “And so they’re asking us, ‘How come I didn’t get my ballot?’ And they’re looking to place blame. They’re saying, ‘I did what I’m supposed to do.’ But, so did we.”
City and township clerks said that after numerous citizen complaints they looked into the problem and determined the delay likely was caused by the way the postal service was processing the ballots. U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman Elizabeth Najduch acknowledged in an email there was a problem and the issue contributing to it has been fixed, but she could not elaborate on the problem or how it was taken care of.
