How many ballots did USPS deliver during the 2024 Election?
Dec 04, 2024
(COLORADO) — The United States Postal Service (USPS), has released its 2024 Post-Election Analysis Report, and the full amount of ballots it processed during the 2024 Election.
As voting by mail becomes more widely adopted, USPS must work efficiently and together with a nationwide patchwork of state, and local policymakers and nearly 8,000 local election offices. According to the report. 99.68% of ballots were delivered.
During the general election period between Sept. 1 and Nov. 15, USPS delivered at least 99.22 million ballots to and from voters, according to its report.
“In 2024, the Postal Service once again admirably performed our role of efficiently and effectively delivering the nation’s ballots,” said Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. “As we continue to transform the nation’s postal network to better meet the demands of the modern mailing and shipping customer, we stand ready to work with policymakers at all levels to make the nation’s effective vote-by-mail process even stronger.”
In order to serve the country, the USPS performed measures such as extra deliveries and collections, special pick-ups, specialized sort plans at processing facilities to expedite delivery to boards of elections and local handling and transportation of ballots.
In fact, according to USPS's report, ballot mail was delivered from voters to local election officials faster than First-Class main in the general election.
Here are some other statistics USPS shared:
99.88% of ballots were delivered from voters to election officials within a week.
99.73% of ballots were delivered from voters to election officials within three days.
3.37 billion pieces of political and election mail were delivered in 2024.
To read the full report, click the link above.