Little noticed Scott Walker change leading to disenfranchised voters. Patrick Marley: Thousands of mailed absentee ballots could be thrown out because witnesses for the voters did not provide their full addresses. With only a fraction of absentee ballots mailed in, … Continue reading
Category Archives: absentee ballots
Politico: Democrats are suing Florida’s top election official in federal court to stop the practice of election officials tossing vote by mail ballots if the signature on the ballot envelope does not match the one on file. The lawsuit was … Continue reading
Interesting turn of tables at CBS Austin, with Democrat raising voter fraud concerns: “Voting by mail is extremely important,” said Bill Maxey with the Texas Democratic Party. Mail in ballots are meant to help senior citizens, people with disabilities and … Continue reading
Over an impassioned dissent recounting the disparate racial effects of its decision, a 6th Circuit panel has voted 2-1 to mostly reject a district court order rejecting some Ohio voting rules which make it harder for voters voting absentee or with … Continue reading
Important story from OH: In an online ad, a smiling Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted holds up a letter with his name in large print and the promise, “Your absentee ballot request form is in the mail.” But for … Continue reading
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Steve Hutkins has a very interesting post on the Voting by Mail blog. … Continue reading
Doug Chapin: Regular readers of this blog will remember that the last year has seen a sharp uptick in stories about how issues with the U.S. Postal Service have begun to affect states’ and localities’ management of vote by mail … Continue reading
Plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction briefs in Feldman v. Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, challenging restrictions on provisional voting, polling locations, and the collection of early ballots are here and here. … Continue reading
An English-language summary of the Constitutional Court’s ruling is here. … Continue reading
Miami Herald: It seemed like the rare, slam-dunk case of voter fraud. Two men stood accused of unlawfully handling four other people’s mail-in ballots in the 2013 Homestead mayoral election, filling at least one of them for precisely the candidatesthe … Continue reading
Phil Kiesling for the Washington Monthly. … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Bergman at The Monkey Cage. … Continue reading
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That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly. … Continue reading
Editorial from the Akron Beacon Journal: There was disturbing news from the Summit County Board of Elections last week. The absentee ballots of 861 voters who mailed their selections to the board were disqualified, even though they had done nothing … Continue reading
Ventura County Star: The man voted by absentee ballot in the Nov. 4 general election, then voted a second time by turning in an absentee ballot under the name of his recently deceased father-in-law, according to the Ventura County District … Continue reading
SF Examiner. … Continue reading
Absentee ballot fraud, natch. … Continue reading
Dothan Eagle: Alabama’s Secretary of State said Friday that his office continues to investigate absentee voter fraud irregularities in the 2013 Dothan District 2 Commission race that have already resulted in three criminal convictions. However, absent a voluntary resignation from … Continue reading
Absentee ballot fraud. … Continue reading
Ned Foley and Charles Stewart APSA paper: We conduct statistical analysis of a phenomenon recently identified by Foley (2013), the rise in the number of votes counted after Election Day (“overtime votes”) and the growing tendency of these votes to … Continue reading
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly. … Continue reading
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Jon Sherman oped. … Continue reading
WaPo: At issue is a May 13 decision by the Board of Elections to let voters sign absentee-ballot request forms electronically instead of printing out the forms, signing them with a pen and e-mailing back a scanned attachment or mailing … Continue reading
News from Texas: The case of two Mission postal workers facing an investigation into whether they sold mail-in ballots during the last La Joya school district board election was recently turned over to federal prosecutors for review. The case focuses … Continue reading
The Bronx Chronicle: The charges are related to the 2014 race in the 86th AD where Ramirez was accused of election fraud involving absentee ballots. Ramirez was narrowly defeated by the incumbent Assemblyman Victor Pichard. Pichardo won 86th Assembly District Democratic … Continue reading
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That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly. … Continue reading
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TLV1: Close to a million Israeli adults will be out of the country on Election Day next week – almost 15 percent of the total number of eligible voters. With Israeli election law forbidding voting from abroad, a large chunk of the population … Continue reading
KRGV reports. … Continue reading
Must-read AJC deep dive into a local Georgia voting controversy. … Continue reading
WaPo: “Democrats are pressing Loudoun County officials to make it easier for absentee voting in next month’s special election to replace Virginia state delegate Barbara Comstock — a fight they’re unlikely to win, and which shows how close the race … Continue reading
From Oregon comes news of a state lawsuit alleging that more than 4600 ballots have been wrongly rejected on the ground that voters’ signatures on ballot envelopes don’t match those on file. These votes could conceivably be enough to swing the result … Continue reading
David Magleby has this piece on Forbes’ Data Freaks, reporting on a survey of Utah voters. A snippet: We found that 21 percent of the Utah voting population prefers to vote by mail and nearly 20 percent prefer to vote by … Continue reading
The Brennan Center has short pieces on how Kansas’ ID and citizenship rules and Ohio’s registration and early voting cuts affected individual voters, part of its series Voting 2014: Stories from the States. … Continue reading
SacBee reports. While some opponents believe all-mail elections open the door to voter fraud, academics and voting-rights advocates worry an all-mail statewide voting system would further disenfranchise young people, residents at the lower end of the socio-economic ladder and those … Continue reading
Denver Post editorial: While Colorado’s 2014 election was primarily about the candidates and initiatives on the ballot, it was also a test of the state’s all-mail ballot and vote center system. Our verdict: It was a success. Not only did … Continue reading
WaPo: “Rapper Lil Jon had a longer commute than most voters to his polling place: a cross-country flight from Los Angeles to Georgia.” … Continue reading
Dan Frosch for WSJ: A new election system using only mail-in ballots faces an immediate test in Colorado, with tight Senate, House and gubernatorial races that are being closely watched nationally. Hoping to boost turnout, the Democrat-led legislature here passed … Continue reading
The other day I noted a federal district court ruling holding that those jailed (but not convicted) voters have the same rights to vote absentee as late-hospitalized Ohio voters. Today the Sixth Circuit rejected the claim in a 2-1 opinion. The … Continue reading
Pam Fessler reports for NPR. … Continue reading
Here’s the story, though it’s short on details. Most of the allegations, as I understand it, have to do with absentee ballots. … Continue reading
If at first you don’t succeed, maybe third time’s the charm. A printing error on sample ballots was reproduced on real absentee ballots in Santa Clara County, CA. … Continue reading
160 absentee ballots sent without signatures of both Republican and Democratic party representatives, rendering them apparently invalid under state law. If only there were some sort of principled, nonpartisan way to decide whether such ballots could be counted… … Continue reading