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Torn ballot envelopes reach San Francisco voters ahead of Nov. 3 election

Directing the city's response to torn ballot envelopes

San Francisco mailed more than 500,000 vote-by-mail ballots for the Nov. 3 election this month. Some arrived with their outer envelopes torn, sliced by Postal Service sorting machines.

Updated 2 hours ago

Thousands of SF mail-in ballots arrive in torn envelopes after USPS machine error

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Managing response to torn ballot reports

Thousands of San Francisco voters are finding their mail-in ballot envelopes torn and crumpled when they arrive. The U.S. Postal Service says its sorting equipment caused the damage and has switched to hand-processing the remaining ballot packets for the Nov. 3 election.

Updated 2 hours ago

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If all four ballot cards and the ballot return envelope are intact, voters can mark their ballots and return them using the ballot return envelope provided.

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The condition of the exterior envelope does not affect whether the ballots are usable. As long as the four ballot cards and the return envelope are unaffected, voters can vote those ballots and return them to the Department.

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All voted ballots will be counted.

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