Federal Court in Michigan Strikes Down MI Law Limiting Free Transportation to Polling Places, Upholds Limits on Third Parties Collecting and Turning in Absentee Ballot Applications
You can find the decision at this link.
Category Archives: absentee ballots
“Federal judge issues temporary injunction against USPS operational changes amid concerns about mail slowdowns”
WaPo:
A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday granted a request from 14 states to temporarily block operational changes within the U.S. Postal Service that have been blamed for a slowdown in mail delivery, saying that President Trump… Continue reading
“Trump Is Waging A Multistate, Multimillion-Dollar Legal Battle Against Mail-In Voting During The Pandemic”
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”
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”
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”
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
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”
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.”
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”
NBC Philadelphia reports.
“Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose blocks Cuyahoga County elections plan offering ballot drop-off sites at libraries”
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”
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”
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”
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