Category Archives: absentee ballots
“Texas tells Harris County to halt plan to send all voters applications for mail-in ballots”
Texas Tribune:
Until now, the fight over voting by mail in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic has focused on which voters are eligible to cast an absentee ballot. Now, the battle has progressed to an argument between the state… Continue reading
“Fearing Delays and Chaos, Swing States Weigh Early Counting of Mail-In Ballots”
AP:
The cumbersome and sometimes slow counting of an expected record number of mail-in ballots — especially in some crucial swing states — could delay results and open the door to challenges in this year’s elections.In 13 states and… Continue reading
“Judge voids 50,000 absentee ballot requests in Iowa county”
AP:
A judge ordered an Iowa county Thursday to invalidate 50,000 requests for absentee ballots, agreeing with President Donald Trump’s campaign that its elections commissioner overstepped his authority by pre-filling them with voters’ personal information.Judge Ian Thornhill issued a… Continue reading
Georgia: “State Investigation Finds Failures In Fulton County’s Absentee Process”
GPB:
A Georgia State Election Board investigation Thursday found that Fulton County’s absentee ballot request process failed in the run-up to the June 9 primary, leaving hundreds of voters without the ballots they requested and contributing to long lines… Continue reading
New Study: Vote by Mail Increases Voter Turnout But Does Not Alter Election Outcomes
The participatory and partisan impacts of mandatory vote-by-mail
View ORCID ProfileMichael Barber1,* and View ORCID ProfileJohn B. Holbein2,*
See all authors and affiliationsScience Advances 26 Aug 2020:Vol. 6, no. 35, eabc7685DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc7685
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“How likely is it that your mail-in ballot won’t get counted? It’s riskier than voting in person.”
Charles Stewart at the Monkey Cage:
In an article forthcoming in the Harvard Data Science Review, I have worked to quantify how much riskier it is for someone to vote by mail than in person. Depending on the state in… Continue reading
“Don Jr. robocall urges supporters to vote by mail”
Politico:
Donald Trump Jr. is urging voters to cast absentee ballots in robocalls detected across the nation Wednesday — even as his father continues to rail against widespread mail-in voting.The robocalls, which reference this week’s Republican National Convention have… Continue reading
Michigan: “Judge: Benson has power to mail absentee ballot applications”
Detroit News:
A Michigan Court of Claims judge dismissed Wednesday a suit challenging Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s decision to mail absentee ballot applications to every registered voter in Michigan ahead of the August and November elections. The court in… Continue reading
“California Republicans have less faith in mail voting, poll finds”
Politico:
Those partisan attacks on mail voting mirror wariness among California Republicans, according to a new poll conducted by the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies.The poll affirmed that mail voting is already widespread in California: pluralities of… Continue reading
“As Dems push mail-in voting, Black and Latino voters wary”
Politico:
In a series of recent focus groups conducted in Philadelphia and Las Vegas by iVote — a Democratic group focused on voting rights and secretaries of state — and shared with POLITICO, Black and Latino voters said… Continue reading
“Pa. Republicans propose election law changes as anxiety builds over mail voting”
Philadelphia Inquirer:
Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania Senate introduced legislation Monday that would effectively prohibit the use of mail-ballot drop boxes that President Donald Trump has criticized, make it more likely that a winner in the presidential race is known… Continue reading
Breaking and Analysis: Federal Court Steps Aside for Now in Dispute over Drop Boxes and Other Pennsylvania Election Rules
In a thoughtful 37-page opinion, in one of the most closely watched pieces of litigation surrounding the conduct of the 2020 election, a federal court (Trump appointee Judge Nicholas Ranjan) has used Pullman abstention to decline to consider the… Continue reading
“More Than 550,000 Primary Absentee Ballots Rejected In 2020, Far Outpacing 2016”
NPR:
An extraordinarily high number of ballots — more than 550,000 — have been rejected in this year’s presidential primaries, according to a new analysis by NPR.That’s far more than the 318,728 ballots rejected in the 2016 general election… Continue reading