“Voting Amid COVID-19:Your Guide to Safer Voting During the Coronavirus Pandemic”
New guide from the Cleveland Clinic and the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Category Archives: election administration
“Some 2,100 L.A. County voters got ballots missing one thing: a way to vote for president”
LA Times:
More than 2,000 Los Angeles County voters got mail-in ballots with a very egregious flaw: no way to vote for U.S. president.The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office confirmed late Monday that about 2,100 “faulty ballots” were mailed… Continue reading
The list of COVID-19 election cases hits 275
Justin here. I’m tracking the litigation over election issues related to COVID-19 … and the list of cases just hit 275. (The Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project also has a really useful sortable database of these cases, with more info.)… Continue reading
Ninth Circuit Reverse Order that Would Have Allowed Arizona Voters Whose Mail Ballots Were Lacking Signatures to Have Up to 5 Days to Provide Signature
Another example of a district court case favorable to voting rights gorups getting reversed on appeal.
“Thousands of North Carolina ballots in limbo amid challenges over rule changes”
ABC News:
A whirlwind of competing lawsuits and legal actions has thousands of ballots in North Carolina in limbo.With just a few weeks left until the Oct. 27 deadline to request absentee ballots, the North Carolina State Board of Elections… Continue reading
“Pennsylvania’s voter services website went down over the weekend as deadlines for mail ballots loom”
Philly Inquirer:
Pennsylvania’s online system for registering to vote and applying for and tracking mail ballots crashed over the weekend, triggering an outage that stretched for more than 24 hours and prompted frustration from voters weeks before critical election… Continue reading
“‘Running out of time’: Efforts to speed up counting mail ballots stall in battleground states”
USA Today:
Battleground states that could decide the presidential election face a shrinking window to take action to allow the processing of absentee ballots before Election Day to cut down on the days or even weeks it could take to… Continue reading
“Democracy in the Time of COVID-19”
New article in Valley Lawyer by Brad Hertz (starts on p. 28).
“The start of early voting in Philly was riddled with technical issues”
Philadelphia Inquirer:
The much-anticipated debut of early voting got off to a rocky start in Philadelphia on Tuesday, as technical issues left voters frustrated and confused while they waited in line, unable to cast their ballots.Philadelphia opened the first seven… Continue reading
“When Your Job Is to Make Sure Nov. 3 Isn’t a Disaster”
NYT:
President Trump’s proclamations at Tuesday’s debate that there was no way the presidential election could be conducted without fraud, as well as frequent tweets along those lines, aren’t helping.“I have never been so upset about a sitting president… Continue reading
“Memory sticks used to program Philly’s voting machines were stolen from elections warehouse”
Philly Inquirer:
A laptop and several memory sticks used to program Philadelphia’s voting machines were stolen from a city warehouse in East Falls, officials confirmed Wednesday, setting off a scramble to investigate and to ensure the machines had not been… Continue reading
“Federal Court Rules Alabama Must Take Steps to Better Protect Voters During COVID-19 Pandemic”
Release:
A federal court issued a decision today that will help protect the health and right to vote of medically vulnerable Alabamians.The ruling in People First of Alabama v. Merrill means Alabama voters will not need a witness or… Continue reading
“Guardrails for the Guardians: Reducing Secretary of State Conflict of Interest and Building More Impartial U.S. Election Administration”
New report from the Election Reformers Network.
“Judge orders Georgia to have paper pollbook backups”
AP:
A federal judge ruled on Monday that every polling place in Georgia must have at least one updated paper backup list of eligible voters to help keep long lines from forming on Election Day if electronic pollbooks used… Continue reading