Release: South Carolina election officials must count absentee ballots that election officials had been planning on rejecting due to an alleged mismatched signature, ensuring voters will not be disenfranchised for this reason in the upcoming November election, a South… Continue reading

Helpful new report from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections project.

NYT: They’re well-organized, they’re well-funded, and they have a message: Return your absentee ballot, but don’t use the mail.The Wisconsin Democratic Party and its supporters had been on a mail-voting education crusade since the coronavirus pandemic hit in March,… Continue reading

On a 5-3 party line vote, the Supreme Court rejected Democrats’ and voting rights groups attempts to reverse the 7th Circuit putting the brakes on a district court order that would have extended the deadline for receipt of absentee ballots… Continue reading

NYT Mag on the record-setting absentee ballot printing required for our pandemic election.

ProPublica: Gerry Cohen had already voted, dropping off his state-issued ballot at his local post office, by the time the unsolicited mail ballot applications started showing up at his house in early September. The first one or two didn’t bother… Continue reading

Herron & Smith: Tens of millions of Americans have already cast their ballots for the 2020 election by mail, building on a historic shift in voting methods that started with primary elections held during the COVID-19 pandemic.Mail-in ballots, however, aren’t… Continue reading

Cleveland.com: A legal fight to add more drop boxes in Ohio counties before Election Day ended Thursday, as voting-rights’ advocates dismissed their federal lawsuit against Secretary of State Frank LaRose.The NAACP of Ohio, the League of Women Voters and… Continue reading

Jasper Scherer: News: The Texas Supreme Court has denied @TexasGOP and @HarrisCountyRP's requests for writs of mandamus to block drive-thru voting in Harris County: https://t.co/tn7XtNWUn1 #txlege— Jasper Scherer (@jaspscherer) October 22, 2020 Dissent.

AP: A split Iowa Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a new Republican-backed law that could bar county elections commissioners from mailing absentee ballots to thousands of people who omitted information on their applications.The 4-3 ruling means that voters who… Continue reading