“The scary part of the Supreme Court ruling on Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots”
New Josh Douglas at CNN.
Category Archives: absentee ballots
North Carolina: “Voters will get chance to fix or redo their absentee ballots”
News & Observer:
Voters whose absentee ballots have problems with their envelopes can now expect contact from board of elections offices in order to fix their ballots by Election Day. And less than 24 hours after North Carolina added… Continue reading
5th Circuit Reverses District Court Order Which Would Have Made It Easier for Texas Voters to “Cure” Signature Mismatch; Case Shows Danger of Pursing These Cases with Increasingly Conservative Judiciary
You can find the opinion by Judge Smith (along with a concurrence by Judge Higgenbotham at this link.
This case is a nice illustration of the dangers of bringing these suits seeking federal court orders easing voting during a pandemic.… Continue reading
Florida: “Trump Republicans ask to double-check Broward ballot signatures”
South Florida Sun Sentinel:
Teams of lawyers for President Donald Trump and Joe Biden got a rare look Friday at Broward voter signatures, at an event staged to clear up Republicans’ questions about election accuracy.Lawyers for Trump’s presidential campaign had… Continue reading
Retired Republican Member of Congress Jim Gerlach: “Pennsylvania’s election officials should have more time to process absentee ballots”
Penn Live oped:
Failing to allow election officials to begin processing absentee ballots early will put undue pressure on them on Election Day. Failing to provide more time for processing these ballots also means that it is more likely that… Continue reading
Michigan State Appeals Court Rejects Later Counting of Absentee Ballots, and Third Party Collection of Ballots
Detroit News:
A Michigan Court of Appeals panel has reversed a lower court ruling that would have required election officials to count late absentee ballots and allowed third parties to collect absentee ballots from voters.The Court of Claims “abused… Continue reading
“Florida Republicans Launch Last-Minute Effort to Shut Down Ballot Drop Boxes”
Mark Joseph Stern for Slate:
Florida law also allows supervisors to set up discretionarydrop boxes outside locations that qualify as early voting sites but aren’t being used for that purpose. So, for instance, supervisors can place drop boxes outside libraries,… Continue reading
“In Ohio, a Printing Company Is Overwhelmed and Mail Ballots Are Delayed”
NYT:
As the presidential election headed into the final stretch in late summer, counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania worried that a deluge of absentee ballot requests would swamp their printing capacity. So 16 of them contracted with Midwest Direct,… Continue reading
“Pa. has rejected 372,000 ballot applications — most of them duplicates — bewildering voters and straining officials”
Philly Inquirer:
Pennsylvania has rejected 372,000 requests for mail ballots, straining election offices and bewildering voters in one of the most hotly contested battlegrounds in the presidential election.More than 90% of those applications, or about 336,000, were denied as… Continue reading
Alabama SOS John Merrill Asks Supreme Court to Kill Curbside Voting
“Postal Service agrees to reverse service changes”
AP:
The lawsuit filed against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service on Sept. 9 argued changes implemented in June harmed access to mail services in Montana, resulting in delayed delivery of medical prescriptions, payments, and job… Continue reading
“How Quickly Will Your Absentee Vote Be Counted? A State-by-State Timeline”
Very useful from the NYT.
Federal Court Holds Republican Presidential Electors in Minnesota Lack Standing to Challenge Consent Decree Extending Deadline for Receipt of Absentee Ballots
This interesting ruling has some interesting discussions about the working of the electoral college/safe harbor rules.
“Huge Absentee Vote in Key States Favors Democrats So Far”
NYT:
In Madison, Wis., thousands of people have gone to parks to deliver their ballots during Saturday voting festivals. In Milwaukee, Facebook feeds are inundated with selfies of Democrats inserting ballots into drop boxes. And along the shores of… Continue reading