s. If unvoted mail ballots (either absentee ballots or regular ballots for all mail in
elections) are received at a P.O. Box, the person handling the mail of multiple
people as part
of a trip to the post of[rce could handle more than six
ballots. 09/08/20 Trial Tr. (Fyant) at 98:18-99:7.
t.
Given the large extended families living closely together on reservations, it is not
uncommon that a person may handle mail, including ballots, for more than six
family members
u.
.
09108/20 Trial Tr. (Fyant) at 92:12-15.
In order to deal with mail delays, Native Americans living on rural reservations
would need to mail in their ballots more than a week before an election. 09/09120
Trial Tr. (McCool) at343:16-344:13;09/09120 Trial Tr. (Street) at274:23-276:23;
Pl. Ex. 26 at 4-6lStip. Ex. 8. But mailing in their ballots that early would have voter
costs of missing the last week of campaigns when important campaign information
is shared and when key get-out-the-vote initiatives are active. 09109120 Trial Tr.
(McCool) at 343:16-344:14.
v.
"[B]allot collection is a great way to not have to deal with the problems created by
tenible mail service. So a ballot collector comes to your door, you give them
a
ballot, it's signed and sealed, and they then logically they'd take it to an election
oflice, but they can't do that now. But that would be the logical way to get around
all the terrible problems that the postal service is experiencing right now. So there's
a direct
relationship there." 09109120 Trial Tr. (McCool) at339:17-24.
w. There are also longer distances to the polls
and shorter hours at satellite polling
locations and county seats, resulting in additional voter costs and reliance on ballot
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