DFL sample ballots AWOL from some Minneapolis mailboxes

DFL Party sample ballot mailings that were supposed to arrive Friday or Saturday still had not reached some Minneapolis mailboxes as of Monday. Minneapolis DFL chair Dan McConnell says the party has been working with the postal service to locate undelivered sample ballots and get them to their destinations by today, Election Day.

“We’re not really that worried about it,” McConnell tells the Minnesota Independent. He says the sample ballot postcards are only one of several methods the party uses for communicating its list of endorsed candidates. And for people who receive their ballots today, McConnell says, they’ll serve as reminders to go vote.

The U.S. Postal Service has a system of “red-tagging” time-sensitive political mail for priority handling, McConnell says. He’s not sure how many of the approximately 70,000 intended recipients in Minneapolis didn’t receive their sample ballots on time but says party staff are trying to track which zip codes were affected.

Besides endorsements, the sample ballot contains a brief how-to on ranking choices under the city’s new instant-runoff voting system.