“Glitch in Florida’s Voter Registration System can Disenfranchise Absentee Voters”
Herron and Smith explain “self-disenfranchisement.”
Category Archives: absentee ballots
NYS Passes Resolution Extending Absentee Balloting in Light of Sandy
“Opening of absentee ballots under way, but not tallying”
The Columbus Dispatch reports.
“Ohio Voting Count ‘Nightmare’ Looms”
Newsmax: “With the presidential election expected to hinge on Ohio, the state’s former secretary of state, GOP stalwart Kenneth Blackwell, is warning that a little-known change in the Buckeye State’s absentee-ballot process could lead to a ‘nightmare scenario.'”
“Voter fraud? Voter suppression? Nah. Numbers show winning FL’s all about ground game”
“Ohio Military and Overseas Voting”
“Absentee ballot still counts if voter dies before election”
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
“Sunday Dialogue: To Enhance Democracy, Expand Vote-by-Mail”
NYT forum on letter from former Oregon SOS Phil Keisling.
“Franklin County | 3 people indicted for felony vote fraud”
“Romney campaign sues over absentee ballots in Wisconsin”
CS Monitor: “The Mitt Romney campaign has filed a federal lawsuit in Wisconsin seeking a five-day extension for absentee voters overseas and in the military.”
“Absentee ballots: easy to cast, open to fraud”
Extensive Miami Herald report:
“Absentee ballots seem to be prone to manipulation,” said Joe Centorino, director of Miami-Dade’s Ethics Commission and a former assistant state attorney who prosecuted several vote-fraud cases stemming from Miami’s tainted 1997 mayoral election. “Once those… Continue reading
“Officials want late absentee ballots counted”
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Secretary of State Ruth Johnson and Attorney General Bill Schuette want clerks in two dozen Michigan communities to extend the counting deadline for absentee ballots sent to residents overseas and in the military.
“State election fraud defendants seek dismissal”
Claims of racial voter suppression in prosecution of what looks to be typical absentee ballot fraud.
“Ohio elections chief Jon Husted restricts methods to notify voters of absentee ballot errors”
Jon Husted is starting to look a lot more like Ken Blackwell and Jennifer Brunner than I had hoped (h/t Maddowblog).
And he’s got more decisions to make as counties start deadlocking on early voting for those last three… Continue reading