Category Archives: absentee ballots

“Trump Is Waging A Multistate, Multimillion-Dollar Legal Battle Against Mail-In Voting During The Pandemic”

September 17, 2020, 1:59 pmabsentee ballots, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Zoe Tillman for BuzzFeed: President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party are devoting millions of dollars to wage a state-by-state legal battle against mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic, not only suing state officials but also intervening in… Continue reading

“Lara Trump: Did You Know? Voting Absentee is the Most Secure Way to Ensure Your Vote is Counted”

September 17, 2020, 6:57 amabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

Campaign messaging in North Carolina: The Trump campaign assures me that absentee voting is the most secure way to vote in North Carolina. #VoteByMail #NC pic.twitter.com/kgD7RWJ93B— Aylett Colston (@EveryVoiceNC) September 17, 2020

“Tribal nations face continued voter suppression”

September 17, 2020, 6:45 amabsentee ballots, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

High Country News: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, South Dakota encouraged voters to use absentee ballots in the June 3 presidential primary election. Although the state received almost 89,000 absentee ballots in the primaries— five times the number of… Continue reading

“Postal Service and State Officials Feud Over Mail Voting as Election Looms”

September 16, 2020, 8:10 pmabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

NYT: The Postal Service postcard urging voters to “plan ahead” if they intended to vote by mail seemed innocuous enough.But not to Colorado’s secretary of state, Jena Griswold, who dispatched her staff to call the Postal Service trying to… Continue reading

Ohio SOS LaRose to Appeal Drop Box Decision

September 15, 2020, 9:10 pmabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

AP: A directive that restricted Ohio counties to one ballot drop box in November was arbitrary and unreasonable, a county judge ruled Tuesday, delivering the Republican secretary of state in the presidential battleground another in a series of blows… Continue reading

“Mailed Ballots Can’t Be Discarded Over Signature, Pennsylvania Says”

September 15, 2020, 8:57 pmabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

AP: With concerns rising in Pennsylvania that tens of thousands of mail-in ballots will be discarded in the presidential election over technicalities, officials in the battleground state told counties that they cannot reject a ballot solely because an election official… Continue reading

“Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin decided the 2016 election. We’ll have to wait on them in 2020.”

September 15, 2020, 7:23 amabsentee ballots, election administrationRick Hasen

Zach Montellaro for Politico: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are expecting huge surges in ballots cast by mail in 2020, like most states preparing to vote during the coronavirus pandemic. But all three Midwestern battlegrounds, which President Donald Trump flipped… Continue reading

“20,000 Mail-in Ballots Didn’t Count in Pa.’s June Primary, Half the 2016 Victory Margin”

September 14, 2020, 8:08 pmabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

NBC Philadelphia reports.

“Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose blocks Cuyahoga County elections plan offering ballot drop-off sites at libraries”

September 14, 2020, 2:01 pmabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

Very troubling: Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Monday swiftly moved to block the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections from implementing a plan that would have allowed voters to drop off their completed absentee ballots at six libraries… Continue reading

“Cuyahoga County Board of Elections moves to allow residents to return early voting ballots at six libraries”

September 14, 2020, 12:33 pmabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

The latest from Ohio: The Cuyahoga County plan appears to be an end-around the ballot dropbox prohibition by LaRose. In a press release, local board members compared offering ballot collections locations to the existing precedent of sending bipartisan teams of… Continue reading

“Report finds 1.7 percent of California vote-by-mail ballots rejected on average”

September 14, 2020, 10:00 amabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

Release: A new report finds on average 1.7 percent of vote-by-mail ballots cast in California have been rejected over the past decade. In three counties studied, young and newly registered voters were more likely than older voters to have… Continue reading

“Mismatched signatures prompt tossed absentee ballots and legal fights ahead of November election”

September 14, 2020, 7:47 amabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

CNN: Legal fights over absentee votes aren’t a new phenomenon, but they’ve taken on a newfound importance because of the surge in requests for mail-in ballots and states expanding access to vote-by-mail and, in some cases, conducting elections almost… Continue reading

Green Party Demands Ruling Today from Wisconsin Supreme Court About Getting on State Ballot

September 14, 2020, 7:20 amabsentee ballots, third partiesRick Hasen

Release: The Green Party candidates for president and vice-president are demanding that the Wisconsin Supreme Court put them on the ballot today. “The court should have made a decision by now. We want a decision today to put us… Continue reading

“‘A huge risk’: Trump’s allies can’t sway him on mail-in voting”

September 12, 2020, 12:53 pmabsentee ballots, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: For a few weeks, Donald Trump’s advisers had seemingly gotten through to him — the president was finally encouraging his supporters to vote by mail, at least some of the time.On-message Trump didn’t last long. He recently appeared… Continue reading

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