Election officials nationwide race to expand voting options as Postal Service crisis spurs alarm

Calls began flooding into election offices on Friday, the day after Trump said he would oppose a Postal Service bailout, and they have continued since, according to election officials in Michigan, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina and Colorado, among other states.

“We have gotten a high volume of calls,” said Gary Scott, the general registrar in Fairfax County, Va., a suburb of the nation’s capital with more than 1 million residents. “It has kept a considerable portion of the office staff busy on the phone.”

Some voters want reassurance that they can trust the mail. Others have declared they plan to avoid the mail service altogether.

“I ripped up my mail-in ballot application,” said Colleen Connolly-Ahern, a communications professor at Pennsylvania State University, in State College. “I will be going to my little polling place, putting on my mask and standing in line.”