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CARRIER REFUSED TO PICK UP BALLOTS

"LONGMONT — Longmont’s U.S. Postal staffers have been reminded that mail carriers must collect all ballots that voters put in their mailboxes to be delivered to elections officials, Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall said Thursday.


Hall contacted Postal Service officials after a Longmont woman complained Wednesday that a mail carrier refused to accept the ballots the woman and her husband put in their mailbox for pickup.


Kathy Porter-Peden, who lives near 17th Avenue and Lashley Street, told the Times-Call that she didn’t know who the carrier was.


But she said he’d returned the ballots to their mailbox after drawing a circle around a printed reminder on the return envelope that says the voter must sign the back of the ballot envelope.


Porter-Peden said she and her husband, James, had signed the return envelopes but the carrier might not have realized that a flap on the envelope is designed to cover the voter’s signature."

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