State, local election officials urging voters to get absentee ballots in early over postal problems [Video]

Channel 2 Action News has been reporting on mail delays at the U.S. Postal Service center in Palmetto in South Fulton for weeks.

And now our reporting is prompting state elections workers to encourage people to get absentee ballots early and track them for the upcoming May primary election.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joined elections officials in Paulding County Friday as part of a joint exercise on election security.

But everyone was talking about the problems about an hour south of Dallas at the brand-new postal facility in Palmetto, where only 36% of mail coming through there is delivered on time.

“We realized there was a problem when we got ballots after the March 12 Presidential Primary that were postmarked back in February,” Paulding County elections supervisor Deidra Holden said.

Holden was so worried about the mail service, that she contacted her Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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