Detroit News: State Court of Claims Judge Christopher Murray has ruled invalid Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s guidance issued to Michigan clerks in early October that instructed them to presume the accuracy of absentee ballot signatures.Because Benson did not go… Continue reading

CNN: Georgia Republican lawmakers are pushing to clamp down on voting rights Monday, potentially passing a sweeping election bill that among other things would repeal no-excuse absentee voting.Under SB 241, voters would need to be 65 years old… Continue reading

Enrijeta Shino, Mara Suttmann-Lea, and Daniel A. Smith in Political Research Quarterly: Because of the COVID-19 threat to in-person voting in the November 2020 election, state and local election officials have pivoted to mail-in voting as a… Continue reading

538: It was the nightmare scenario for the 2020 election: With so many more people than usual casting absentee ballots, observers feared that a significant share of ballots would be rejected for not following proper procedure. One study… Continue reading

AJC: Voting was never easier in Georgia than in November’s presidential election. But it might not last.Republican legislators plan to crack down on voting access after record turnout helped Democrat Joe Biden win Georgia, flipping the state after 24 years… Continue reading

WSB-TV: Channel 2 Action News has learned that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has finished the signature audit in Cobb County over the November election.Earlier in the month, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said his office had investigated credible allegations… Continue reading

The Guardian/VoteBeat: Americans shattered records for voting by mail in many states in the 2020 presidential election, a phenomenon that tested existing election laws, new pandemic-related regulations, postal service capacity, voter education efforts and voters’ own resolve.Some states had more… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: More Wisconsin voters were allowed to vote absentee without showing photo identification in counties Donald Trump won than in counties that backed Joe Biden, a new analysis shows…A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel review shows 123,357 voters in the… Continue reading

AP: Georgia’s secretary of state on Monday announced an audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in one county, but the outcome of the presidential race in the state will not change as a result of the audit.“Now that the… Continue reading

NBC LX: US Postal Service workers likely delivered more than 99.9% of the nation’s mail ballots in-time to be counted this year, despite record participation and unprecedented pandemic-related challenges. However, it also appears the USPS disenfranchised tens of thousands… Continue reading