“The End of the Polling Booth; States are making voting more accessible by allowing citizens to vote at home.”
Tina Rosenberg NYT column.
Category Archives: absentee ballots
“Miami Candidate’s Campaign Workers May Have Tampered With Absentee Ballots”
Miami New Times:
An explosive, 150-page WhatsApp chat leaked to Miami New Times appears to show members of Miami-Dade County Commission District 5 candidate Alex Diaz de la Portilla’s 2018 campaign team discussing destroying or stealing absentee ballots from… Continue reading
New Jersey: “Man pleads guilty in alleged Hoboken voter bribery scheme” /$50 per ballot for absentee ballots
“‘We got our clocks cleaned’: GOP quietly works to expand ballot-harvesting in California while criticizing Democrats for the practice”
“Crenshaw falsely says HR1 would legalize the type of election fraud found in NC”
North Carolina Elections Board Issues Unanimous 46-Page Damning Set of Factual Findings and Legal Conclusions Related to Bladen County #NC09 Absentee Ballot Crimes, Explaining Why It Ordered New Election
From the introduction:
A new election is the gravest remedy available to this State agency that has, for a century, supervised elections meant to ensure “[a]ll political power is vested in and derived from the people; all government of… Continue reading
“Republicans Say Democrats’ Election Reform Bill Doesn’t Address Ballot Harvesting”
McConnell picks on one thing missing from H.R. 1.
More on third parties collecting and returning absentee ballots, in California, here.
Republicans Plan Ballot Harvesting Amendment to H.R. 1
The Washington Examiner:
Among the provisions Republicans may attach to the campaign finance legislation is one that would prohibit ballot harvesting, which is the practice of collecting absentee ballots and delivering them to a polling site with the intent… Continue reading
“Mitch McConnell On NC Ballot Harvesting: Why Is It Legal In California?”
Charlotte NPR:
Earlier this week, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell spoke about the North Carolina Board of Election’s vote to hold a new election in the 9th Congressional District because absentee mail ballots were illegally harvested. McConnell spoke about… Continue reading
11th Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Explains Why It Rejected Stay of District Court Order Requiring Florida Voters Have a Chance to Cure Rejected Absentee Ballots with Mismatched Signatures
You can find the 83 pages of opinions at this link.
“Editorial: N.C. GOP, more than state Elections Board, needs transparency”
WRAL editorial:
It is hard to imagine where the North Carolina GOP leadership found the gall to have the Ninth Congressional District Republican Executive Committee pass a “resolution” demanding the State Board of Elections “immediately certify” Mark Harris the… Continue reading
“Don’t be shocked by the North Carolina fraud allegations. Absentee ballots are much less secure than polling places.”
Mara Suttmann-Lea for the Monkey Cage. … Continue reading
“NC election fraud: Concerning number of absentee ballots not returned in Columbus Co.”
WECT:
As evidence mounts of potential election fraud in Bladen County, WECT has learned this may not be an isolated problem. WECT has just uncovered that things in Columbus County may be even worse.
About a third of the absentee… Continue reading
Steve Huefner Argues for Anti-Ballot Harvesting Laws in Light of North Carolina Absentee Voting Scandal
Steve at Moritz:
But the North Carolina story makes clear that it behooves states to do more to promote the security of absentee voting by mail. For starters, reform advocates must recognize that the convenience of absentee voting comes with… Continue reading