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USPS and civil rights groups reach deal to fast-track ballots in Georgia runoff elections Jacob Bogage © Lynne Sladky/AP Roughly 65 million Americans voted by mail in the Nov. 3 election. More than 1.3 million Georgians have requested mail-in ballots for the states Jan. 5 runoff election, of which 721,000 have been returned. Civil rights groups and the U.S. Postal Service struck a deal on speedier ballot-handling procedures ahead of Georgia’s critical runoff election, avo...

USPS Agrees to Expedite Georgia Voters Mail Ballots Ahead of Runoff Elections Newsweek 12/24/2020 Emily Czachor © GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. Postal Service agreed to comply with a set of terms established by civil rights organizations, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, to ensure Georgia voters mail-in ballots are counted ahead of Januarys runoff elections. Mail-in ballots sit in containers from the US Postal Service waiting to be processed by election w...