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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 state's 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, avoiding a court battle at a time the mail system is getting hammered by holiday packages and staffing...

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 January's runoff elections. Mail-in ballots sit in containers from the US Postal Service waiting to be processed by election workers at the Salt Lake County election office in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 29, 2020 The Un...