Reno County advance mail ballot voters are advised in the mailing from the county to put $1.21 in postage on the envelope when mail back the ballot.
A U.S. Postal Service Forever stamp currently costs 50 cents and many voters are putting three such stamps on the large envelope, measuring 14 and a half inches by 9 and one-quarter inches, according to Reno County Clerk and Election Officer Donna Patton.
But if a voter puts insufficient or no postage on the envelope, it still will be delivered to the Reno County clerk’s office. The Postal Service will not send it back to the voter, emphasized Patton.
“We basically have a fund at the Post Office,” Patton said, and county funds are used to cover the cost of insufficient postage.
(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)