The U.S. Postal Service is investigating after vote-by-mail ballots for San Mateo County were stolen from a Daly City post office, the county’s Registration & Elections Division said Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Elections Division said it was notified Wednesday of the mail theft that reportedly included mail-in ballots. The number of ballots that were stolen is still unknown.<\/p>\n
The county is working with USPS to investigate.<\/p>\n
Voters who are concerned that their ballots may have been affected by the theft may request a replacement ballot online<\/a> or in person at any vote center in the county.<\/p>\n Online requests for a replacement ballot must be submitted by Oct. 27 to allow sufficient time for mailing.<\/p>\n Voters are encouraged to look up the status of their mail-in ballots through the California Secretary of State’s free ballot tracking service, “Where’s My Ballot.”<\/a> The platform notifies voters when their ballot is mailed, received, and processed by the county elections division.<\/p>\n There are currently three vote centers open in the county. Additional centers will open on Saturday, Oct. 24 and Saturday, Oct. 31, bringing the total to 50 vote centers. For a list of vote centers and ballot drop off locations, go to smcacre.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n Voters with questions about their ballot status can contact the elections division at registrar@smcacre.gov or 650-312-5222.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Postal Service is investigating after vote-by-mail ballots for San Mateo County were stolen from a Daly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[8816,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-499047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-daly-city","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}