The postal ballot debacle
![Police deliver the boxes with the postal absentee ballots from the RMI post office in Uliga to the ICC tabulation headquarters Monday morning. Photo: Hilary Hosia. The postal ballot debacle](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/election-12-8.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
GIFF JOHNSON The number of postal absentee ballots that made it back to RMI in time to be counted were fewer than 40 percent of the number mailed to Marshallese overseas — demonstrating the problems inherent in this voting system. On top of only 40 percent arriving — 1,469 ballots of 3,752 mailed out — […]