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The directive came after the Postal Service disclosed that more than 300,000 ballots nationwide could not be traced. Those ballots received entry bar code scans at processing facilities, but not exit scans.
The agency said the likelihood of that many ballots being misplaced was very low; mail clerks had been ordered to sort ballots by hand in many locations and items that were pulled out for expedited delivery were not given an exit scan.
“We know yesterday that if the sweeps were doing their job, mail that was identified as ballots and were in the system should have been pulled out…
