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If you are voting absentee by mail, note that your ballot might need extra postage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Many absentee ballots for the Nov. 4 presidential election are so long and weigh so much that mailing them back to elections supervisors requires extra postage, in many cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. Postal Service generally returns mail with insufficient postage to the sender, but that can take days.<\/p>\n

Mailing costs vary, depending on everything from the size of the envelope to the weight of the paper. Check with your local postal authorities for proper postage.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are voting absentee by mail, note that your ballot might need extra postage.\u00a0 Many absentee ballots for the Nov. 4 presidential election are so long and weigh so much that mailing them back to elections supervisors requires extra postage, in many cases.\u00a0 The U.S. Postal Service generally returns mail with insufficient postage to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1721,1722],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAbsentee ballots might need extra postage - SMART Union<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/absentee-ballots-might-need-extra-postage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Absentee ballots might need extra postage - 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