Detroit News: A Michigan Court of Appeals panel has reversed a lower court ruling that would have required election officials to count late absentee ballots and allowed third parties to collect absentee ballots from voters.The Court of Claims “abused… Continue reading

Mark Joseph Stern for Slate: Florida law also allows supervisors to set up discretionarydrop boxes outside locations that qualify as early voting sites but aren’t being used for that purpose. So, for instance, supervisors can place drop boxes outside libraries,… Continue reading

NYT: As the presidential election headed into the final stretch in late summer, counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania worried that a deluge of absentee ballot requests would swamp their printing capacity. So 16 of them contracted with Midwest Direct,… Continue reading

Philly Inquirer: Pennsylvania has rejected 372,000 requests for mail ballots, straining election offices and bewildering voters in one of the most hotly contested battlegrounds in the presidential election.More than 90% of those applications, or about 336,000, were denied as… Continue reading

AP: The lawsuit filed against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service on Sept. 9 argued changes implemented in June harmed access to mail services in Montana, resulting in delayed delivery of medical prescriptions, payments, and job… Continue reading

Very useful from the NYT.

NYT: In Madison, Wis., thousands of people have gone to parks to deliver their ballots during Saturday voting festivals. In Milwaukee, Facebook feeds are inundated with selfies of Democrats inserting ballots into drop boxes. And along the shores of… Continue reading

David Cottrell, Michael Herron, and Dan Smith have posted this new draft. Here is the abstract: Although most ballots in the United States have historically been cast in-person, an increasing number of Americans are turning to mail-in voting during… Continue reading

PBS News Hour: For many Native Americans living on tribal reservations, a home address is not a standard number and street name, like 735 Bleeker Street. Instead, it’s a series of instructions.“They’ll say something like, I live off highway… Continue reading

Cleveland.com: State officials have told Cuyahoga County elections officials that they still can’t proceed with their plan to set up ballot collection sites at county libraries, saying a federal judge in a written order incorrectly described a policy set by… Continue reading