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Mailing absentee ballot held up in Customs?

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 Our mailed-in absentee ballots have been held up in Customs.

From Dupage County we received e-mails with a sample ballot and instructions.  We printed those out, filled in the forms, signed them, and put them in separate ordinary #10 business-size envelopes.  We mailed them at our local Portugal post office 23September, sending them Express mail, with tracking (but no signature required).   In one previous example, that method took a week to deliver to an Illinois residence.  Then I sent a birthday card to my sister in Texas the same method, on 06October–it arrived 15October.  My mail ballot is still in Customs! Barb's ballot was sent in the same type of envelope, at the same time, same method. Both are held up in Customs.


As of 27 October, here is the tracking information for my ballot:


We queried the Wheaton Clerk's office, and they confirmed that they had no record of receiving our ballots.  

I filed an inquiry on the usps.com website, listing the tracking number.  Amazingly, the Wheaton post office phoned me that afternoon!  However, she told me that the Customs office holds things for undetermined reasons, sometimes as much as a month.  


We have since printed and signed and assembled FWAB ballots, and posted them last week to the same Wheaton address, this time just regular mail (no tracking, no express).  


Given the recent declarations by the President promising to restrict postal ballots, we are worried that the Customs office is targeting our ballots! 


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