Voters in Annapolis, Maryland, are being asked to drop off their mail-in ballots or vote in person due to issues with the U.S. Postal Service, according to the Anne Arundel County Board of Elections.

The issues were reported ahead of the city's Primary Election on Tuesday, Sept. 16.

Election officials alerted the city on Tuesday, saying the mail service problems are impacting the return of mail-in ballot request forms and causing extreme delays in the delivery of mail-in ballots to the Board of Elections and to voters.

The board said it is working with postal officials to resolve the issues.

"We were expecting a lot of folks to take advantage of that and send the applications back," said David Garreis, the Anne Arundel County Elections Director.

Garreis said the Board of Elections did

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