A change made by the United States Postal Service has county clerks across the state concerned about upcoming elections.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Illinois county clerks, led by the Tazewell County clerk, warned voters Thursday that changes to Postal Service rules ...

County clerks from across Illinois are urging voters to send in their mail ballots earlier than usual due to newly implemented U.S. Postal Service changes that could affect the postmark date and ...

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A group of Democratic U.S. senators is voicing concern over U.S. Postal Service processing changes and what those could mean for voting with mail ballots. Updated agency policy says the postmark ...

Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman speaks at a news conference in Peoria. Tazewell traveled to Washington, D.C., with three other clerks in September 2025 to meet with federal lawmakers to advocate ...

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The consequences could be particularly acute in rural areas where mail has to travel farther to reach regional processing ...