Making sure your vote is counted

We're hearing from the post office about voter safety and fraud as people prepare to mail-in their ballots.

Light & variable a record number of ballots will be sent through the mail this election year.

So can folks be confident sending their valuable vote via the u?

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Kimt news three's nick kruszalnicki is talking to local election officials to find out ?

"* nick.

Xxx yes george and katie ?

"* just this afternoon cerro gordo county alone has nearly 75 hundred requests for absentee ballots.

That's nearly 18 percent of the population.

It will be a big job for the postal service to make sure the ballots get there on time and county officials will be staying vigilant to protect those votes.

Xxx "i'm going to vote in person, but i'm voting early, because we're leaving for the winter."

Voting is so important to shirley krutsinger ?

"* she's deciding to postpone her trip.

Her confidence in mail?

"*in voting is pretty low.

"i don't trust the mail.

I want to make sure i drop it myself in person.

That's why we waited.

We were going to leave a couple of weeks ago, but we waited until we could vote."

Just yesterday, the postal service released a fact sheet ?

"* detailing their plans for handling election mail.

Ballots will be treated the same as first?

"* class letters.

They'll be adding extra transportatio n to handle the increased volume.

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"*p?* increasing pickup and delivery of mail.

Postal employees are also going to be working some overtime.

Voter john garcia tells me he plans on voting by mail this election.

"i think it's less hassle.

Less hassle and plus the virus and everything."

He's not worried about his ballot making it to the county auditor's office by election day.

"i think so, i have confidence in them."

Cerro gordo county auditor adam wedmore assures voters ?

*- election officials will work hard to protect the integrity of the november election.

"we start the investigation through our office and we work to determine all the facts of the situation, wedmore also told me ?

"* election misconduct is taken very seriously in the state of iowa.

A first degree charge is considered a class 'd' felony.

Live in mason city, nick kruszalnicki, kimt news 3./// thanks nick.

Early voting is well underway in minnesota... but it won't start in iowa until this monday.

If you want to track your absentee ballot ?

"* head over to kimt dot com.

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