Mail Delays Endanger Voting for More Than 100 Absentee Voters in Shelby County
More than 100 Shelby County voters who applied to vote absentee learned Monday that they could not because their applications had been delayed in the mail. Shelby County Circuit Court Clerk Mary Harris said she received 122 applications for absentee ballots in the mail Monday. The problem is, the deadline for receiving those applications was Thursday. The peculiar thing about those applications, Harris said, is that they were postmarked Monday, Oct. 31. Of those, 97 were from the metro Birmingham area, she said. Harris spent Monday alerting people that their absentee ballots were not in the mail and that they must, if possible, go to their regular polling place to cast their ballots. Read more.