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Story summary
- U.S. Postal Service finalized a rule that postmarks show processing-center dates, not receipt dates.
- Oregon rejected 7,314 ballots for late postmarks, a 13% rate up from 9.5% two years earlier.
- Washington recorded 20,267 late-postmarked ballots in this primary, up from 16,131 in 2024.
- Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read urged voters to mail ballots at least one week early, calling the loss unacceptable.
