About 68,000 pieces of political mail were delayed for five days upon arriving at a Baltimore mail processing facility ahead of Marylands June primary, according to a U.S. Postal Service audit. Brooklyn, New York; Charleston, West Virginia; Indianapolis; Oklahoma City; Portland, Oregon; and Santa Clarita, California, were also included in the Postal Service inspector generals national audit. The audit specified political mail as any mailpiece created by a registered political candidate, a campaign committee or a committee of a political party for political campaign purposes.Auditors found that no ballots were among the delayed mail in Baltimore, though 200 ballots were found untouched in Oklahoma City and several facilities did not properly verify that all political mail had been processed in the weeks before the primaries. Freda Sauter, a regional spokeswoman for the Postal Service, said in an email to The Baltimore Sun that the agency was committed to delivering election mail in a timely manner this fall.