An oversight by the D.C. Board of Elections meant more than 10,000 absentee ballot envelopes sent to voters did not include a reminder to include stamps, creating confusion two weeks before Election Day.
Those envelopes normally have an “additional postage required” box for stamps, but the language was not included on the sample envelope submitted to a printer earlier this fall, said board spokeswoman Rachel Coll.
Still, the U.S. Postal Service said it delivers absentee ballots with insufficient postage and charges the local elections agency instead.
