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But the audit found that in 10 of 82 facilities, or about 12%, management wasn’t aware of the proper way to postmark a ballot.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

If mailing your ballot on election day, officials say to get a hand-stamped postmark from a postal employee inside the post office.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

“If the postmark is not the same as the city and state of the ‘supposed’ issuing bank, it might be an indication the check is fake.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

Tickets go on sale on Friday and are restricted to people with a Bolton postmark.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

“What postmark? The address, the postmark, the stamps, they’ve been tore off or something.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Because California postmarks mail-in ballots up to Election Day and allows them a full week to arrive to ensure every single vote — including overseas military personnel — is counted, the process takes time.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

But a lifelong interest in stamps and postmarks seem to have led to him taking letters that caught his eye.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025

States set their own election laws, and most rely on postmarks to determine if a vote was cast in time.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

Its postmarks can legally serve as documentation of when an item was mailed, whether a postcard or a ballot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

Weeks passed at Mrs. Sen’s before he found a blue aerogram, grainy to the touch, crammed with stamps showing a bald man at a spinning wheel, and blackened by postmarks.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

In California, mail-in ballots can arrive within seven days after election day and be counted, but they generally must be postmarked by election day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

In California, mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day are legally counted as they arrive in the days following.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

This delayed overtaking of Pratt by Raman was largely expected, because California’s vote-by-mail system accepts ballots postmarked on or before Election Day and received within seven days of the election.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

State law, which favors voter participation over speed, requires that election officials verify and count every ballot that is postmarked by Election Day and arrives within a week after.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

It was postmarked New York and was written hastily, in the red pen he used for correcting our Greek.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Also, at five of nine mail processing facilities studied, retail clerks who were postmarking ballots by hand sometimes used stamps with inaccurate dates, according to the report.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

It says customers use postmarking for their own purposes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Communities located outside the circles are affected by the postmarking change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025

Most postmarking takes place in Anchorage, a day or more away by mail from most of the state.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2020

First of all, there’s a difference in messaging between mailing and postmarking.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2020