General Discussion

That used to be 5 pm, which was already a problem for lots of folks who work. Now, one needs to be aware of how the office they'd go to operates. Staff and counter reductions have resulted in some weird hours in many offices. You also have to ASK the clerk to physically postmark your stamp, which they don't do automatically anymore.

What this does seem to preclude is dropping your ballot in the outside mailbox the night before, and such. The post offices where I used to live scheduled their workers to hand collect mail from drive-ups on Tax Day and Election Day, but I have no idea if that's the case anymore or if it's done anywhere else. And in a state like Montana, where I understand all ballots are mail-in, one can only imagine.