South Dakota’s top election official has confidence in the US Postal Service to disburse absentee ballots before the November election.
President Trump is opposing a Democratic push for more postal service funding in a new coronavirus relief package.
Secretary of State Steve Barnett says South Dakota voters also have other options with their ballots.
“I don’t anticipate any issues with the postal service. I think most of the county auditors offices have—like in Hughes County we have a drop box outside of the court house if people feel more comfortable, they request their ballot to be sent to them and they want to drop it off at a secure drop box, that’s also an option if they’re worried about a delay in mailing time.”
Early voting in South Dakota starts September 18th.
Barnett says voting by mail was popular during the spring primary election. Fifty-eight percent of ballots cast for that election were absentee. In the 2016 primary election, it was 22 percent.
