“Trump’s Attacks on the Post Office Threaten Democracy”
David Gans and Rebecca Damante at CAC.
Category Archives: absentee ballots
“Much ado about mail voting”
Gavin Thompson Weise blogs at US Vote Foundation.
“Ohio elections officials: Mail delays could result in some voters not getting ballots before April 28 primary”
Cleveland.com:
Ohio elections officials say delays with the United States Postal Service could cause some voters to not get their ballots on time send them in for next Tuesday’s vote-by-mail primary election.Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said Thursday his… Continue reading
“Biden Quiet on Nationwide Vote by Mail. That’s on Purpose”
Daily Beast:
As concerns have risen about voter safety in the midst of a global pandemic, the past few weeks have seen proposed solutions put forward by voter-rights organizations, Democratic lawmakers, and almost the entirety of former Vice President Joe… Continue reading
“Mail voting expected to ‘explode’ in Florida as coronavirus reshapes 2020 elections”
Miami Herald:
In Florida, a state where the steady rise of mail voting has dramatically transformed the campaign season over the last 20 years, the novel coronavirus could fast-forward the evolution of elections.
Elections offices in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm… Continue reading
“Vote-By-Mail, Critical In Pandemic, Poses Risks For Voters Of Color”
Tierney Sneed for TPM:
The pandemic stands to bring a major surge of mail-in and absentee voting, both in the remaining spring and summer elections, and in the general election this fall.But the system — critical for keeping voters safe… Continue reading
“Michigan Secretary of State Revises Signature Match Process As a Result of Federal Lawsuit”
Marc Elias press release.
NYT Analysis: Mail Vote Favored Liberal Supreme Court Candidate in Wisconsin Election (No, This Doesn’t “Upend” Conventional Thinking About Partisanship and Mail-in Voting)
The NY Times has posted this analysis of mail-in voting in the recent Wisconsin primary, showing that the liberal candidate for the state supreme court (favored by Democrats) did better than the conservative candidate (favored by Republicans). This is no… Continue reading
“Two-thirds of voters back vote-by-mail in November 2020; In a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 58 percent want election rules changed permanently.”
NBC News:
A majority of voters — 58 percent — favor nationwide reform of election rules that would allow all eligible voters to cast their ballots by mail, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds. And nearly 10 percent… Continue reading
“The Simplest Way to Avoid a Wisconsin-Style Fiasco on Election Day; If voters don’t get absentee ballots on time, states can offer an easy-access write-in ballot—an option that already exists for Americans overseas.”
Ned Foley and Steve Huefner for Politico:
While states are required by federal law to accept FWABs from military and overseas voters, a version of the FWAB does not yet exist for domestic voters—essentially because the need for it previously… Continue reading
“COVID-19 Should Be a Legitimate ‘Excuse’ to Vote by Mail; In the 16 states that require an excuse to vote by mail, fear of the coronavirus should become an acceptable reason for receiving a mail ballot for the November election.”
Brennan Center:
The remaining 16 states allow voters to cast a mail ballot only if they meet certain criteria — typically, that the voters will be away from their home county on Election Day, that they are serving abroad… Continue reading
Important New Report as Mail-In Voting Ramps Up for November: “Signature Verification and Mail Ballots: Guaranteeing Access While Preserving Integrity”
Great report out of the Stanford Law School Law and Policy Lab, which looks in depth at how California counties handle signature verification on absentee ballot envelopes and how they notify voters about rejected ballots.
This kind of detail really… Continue reading
“GOP war on mail ballots may backfire”
I have written this oped for the NY Daily News. It begins:
If there’s one lesson the farce of conducting the April 7 Wisconsin elections in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic should have taught Republicans, it is that the… Continue reading
“Lawsuit seeks to ease absentee voting laws in Missouri during pandemic”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Voting rights groups filed suit Friday to allow Missourians to vote by mail if they are sheltering in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic.The American Civil Liberties Union and the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition said they… Continue reading