postmark
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Mail-in ballots with a June 2 election day postmark will continue to be accepted by county election officials through Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Make sure to see the envelope handstamped with the postmark instead of tossing the letter in the mailbox, O’Saben added.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
Fourteen US states allow mail-in ballots to be tallied after the date of the election if they bear a postmark by Election Day.
From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026
As with the implications of the postmark rule in domestic elections, it’s not immediately clear what impact any potential complications for overseas voters could have.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026
The postmark is more than a month ago.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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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
Voting in Tuesday’s election remains open Monday and Tuesday, with voting centers closing Tuesday at 8 p.m., and mail-in ballots requiring postmarks of Tuesday or earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
Two months ago, the state’s highest court nonetheless yelled abracadabra and changed the deadline to Nov. 6, while making postmarks optional.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 11, 2020
According to the scraps of labels with Chinese and American addresses, stamps, and postmarks, the family airmailed the can from Hong Kong in 1950.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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That included a facility in Pennsylvania on the state’s primary election day, which caused 56 ballots to be postmarked with the wrong date.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
“The public can no longer assume that a piece of mail dropped in a mailbox before collection time on a specific day will be postmarked that same day,” Alexander said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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
Vote-by-mail ballots postmarked on or before election day and received within seven days after the election, as well as any provisional ballots cast, must still be counted, the California secretary of state said.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
The letter was postmarked Boston, four days earlier.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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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
Postal Service representative Natashi Garvins said in an email that same-day postmarking has never been guaranteed.
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
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