Category Archives: absentee ballots

“Republican Wisconsin congressman falsely suggests city clerk was lying about absentee ballots”

September 27, 2024, 5:27 amabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

AP: The mailing of about 2,200 duplicate absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s heavily Democratic capital city of Madison has led a Republican member of Congress to falsely suggest that the clerk was lying about the presence of barcodes on the ballots… Continue reading

“Voting rights groups ask Pa. high court to take up mail ballot dating issue immediately”

September 25, 2024, 5:12 pmabsentee ballots, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Votebeat on another potentially big deal: A coalition of voting rights advocates is trying again to get the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to conclusively decide whether voters need to date their mail ballot return envelope in order for their vote to… Continue reading

“Missing mail, including vote-by-mail ballots, reported across Boston”

September 23, 2024, 8:03 amabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

WBUR: Missing mail: If you’re a resident of Boston who hasn’t been receiving your mail on time, you’re not alone. In the last two weeks, residents in Dorchester, Mattapan, Brighton, Roxbury and Mission Hill have filed reports of late… Continue reading

“Conservative court is set to hear a GOP challenge that could invalidate millions of mail-in votes”

September 23, 2024, 5:43 amabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

Bob Egelko: An election-law case about to be heard by a conservative federal appeals court panel in New Orleans could — if it reaches the Supreme Court — invalidate millions of absentee ballots in numerous states, including California. The Republican… Continue reading

“Voters are advised to return their ballots early because of mail delay concerns”

September 20, 2024, 7:14 amabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

NPR reports.

“Mississippi mail voting case at the Fifth Circuit could quickly become a national issue”

September 17, 2024, 6:51 amabsentee ballots, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Chris Geidner: Three of the most extreme right-wing Trump judicial appointees are set to hear arguments next week in an election law appeal that could quickly make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court — and, if the challengers get… Continue reading

“Connecticut Ballot Measure Could Make Voting More Inclusive”

September 13, 2024, 9:37 amabsentee ballots, voters with disabilitiesRick Hasen

Bolts: In 2020, as the world grappled with a deadly global pandemic, Connecticut officials lifted restrictions limiting who can vote by mail, allowing every citizen in the state to obtain an absentee ballot. The results were historic: More than… Continue reading

“Election officials warn that widespread problems with the US mail system could disrupt voting”

September 11, 2024, 10:31 amabsentee ballots, election administrationRick Hasen

AP: State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it… Continue reading

“GOP appeals date ruling on mail-in ballots to Pa. Supreme Court”

September 5, 2024, 7:08 amabsentee ballots, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Trib Live: The Republican National Committee and Republican Party of Pennsylvania are appealing a Commonwealth Court ruling that mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing dates on their outer envelopes should be counted. The appeal to the state Supreme Court was… Continue reading

Pennsylvania Court, on 4-1 Vote, Holds That Failing to Count Timely But Undated (or Misdated) Mail-In Ballots Violates the State Constitution; Case Likely Headed to State Supreme Court and Potentially SCOTUS on Federal Cases

August 30, 2024, 11:40 amabsentee ballots, legislation and legislaturesRick Hasen

This decision could be a very big deal in the case of a very close election. And because this is a ruling that the state constitution trumps a state statute when it comes to voting, there will be an issue… Continue reading

“Pennsylvania county broke law by refusing to tell voters if it rejected their ballot, judge says”

August 27, 2024, 12:52 pmabsentee ballots, election administrationRick Hasen

AP: A Republican-controlled county in Pennsylvania violated state law when election workers refused to tell voters that their mail-in ballot had been rejected and wouldn’t be counted in last April’s primary election, a judge ruled. As a result, voters in… Continue reading

“Top court rules NY’s early mail-in voting law is constitutional”

August 20, 2024, 7:20 pmabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

Times-Union: New York’s highest court upheld a law Tuesday that allows ballots to be mailed in during the early voting period ahead of an election, soundly rejecting arguments from Republicans that the statute violates the state constitution. The ruling means… Continue reading

“GOP lawsuit over Nevada mail ballot deadline tossed”

July 18, 2024, 12:50 pmabsentee ballotsDan Tokaji

Courthouse News Service: A federal judge in Nevada on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee and Donald Trump’s campaign claiming the state’s deadline for mail-in ballots, four days after Election Day, is unconstitutional. Chief U.S. District… Continue reading

“Ballot Collection and Native American Voters: An Assessment of Benefits and Costs”

July 17, 2024, 4:48 amabsentee ballotsDan Tokaji

A new paper by Daniel McCool and Weston McCool in American Indian Culture and Research Journal. From the conclusion: If the trend toward using the mail to deliver ballots rather than voting in person continues, the issue of ballot collection… Continue reading

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