“In Queens district attorney race, voters want affidavit ballots counted”
Provisional or affidavit ballots are counted even when there’s
not a recount. But there’s a whole lot
more attention on them when the
recount comes to town.
Category Archives: provisional ballots
“All Voting is Local Report Finds Racial, Income and Age Disparities in Provisional Ballots Use in Ohio’s Franklin County”
Release:
Franklin County voters are more likely to cast provisional ballots – and have those ballots rejected – than other large counties in Ohio, according to a new analysis of 2018 election data by All Voting is Local released today.… Continue reading
House Oversight Requests Documents re 2018 Georgia Elections
The House Oversight Committee asked
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp today for a set of documents related to voters’
difficulties in Georgia in 2018. So far,
it’s just a request. And Kemp appears
unimpressed.
Breaking: Federal Court, Citing Evidence of Vulnerabilities of Georgia Voter Registration Database, Issues TRO Giving Some Voters Casting Provisional Ballots Chance to Have Vote Counted Before Kemp-Abrams Race Results Certified
You can find the 56 page opinion in Common Cause v. Kemp at this link. From the order:
Plaintiff Common Cause Georgia filed this action against the Georgia Secretary of State1 seeking emergency injunctive relief to ensure that provisional ballots… Continue reading
“Kansas’ ballot box has too many locks”
Wichita Eagle editorial:
Kansas handed out 40,872 provisional ballots and discarded a third of them. Some reasons for throwing them out: The voter moved to another county but didn’t update registration; trying to vote in the wrong jurisdiction; and not… Continue reading
Rep. Issa, Clinging to Narrow Lead as Ballots are Counted, Says Democrats Will Force Counting of Ballots from “Illegal, Unregistered Voters”
At the time of this writing, Rep. Darrell Issa leads challenger Doug Applegate for California’s 49th congressional district by about 3,700 votes. But there are still an unknown number of provisional and other ballots left to be counted. On Friday… Continue reading
“The election might not end on Tuesday night — and that’s okay”
Ned Foley and Charles Stewart WaPo oped:
Moreover, it would be reasonable for a candidate behind by several thousand votes in a state critical to winning the electoral college to think it possible to make up the difference by… Continue reading
Breaking and Big: En Banc 9th Circuit, on 7-4 Vote, Won’t Require AZ to Count Ballots Cast Out of Precinct; Next to #SCOTUS?
The other shoe just dropped in Arizona.
The Ninth Circuit, en banc, issued this short order declining an injunction pending appeal on the en banc case, and making it clear that when the en banc court considers this matter fully,… Continue reading
Breaking: 9th Circuit Grants En Banc in AZ Case Involving Counting Out-of-Precinct Ballots
Order.
(Confusingly, there are now two en bancs named Feldman stemming from the same AZ case: this one on out of precinct ballots and the other on “ballot harvesting”).
From my coverage yesterday:
Same panel as in the… Continue reading
9th Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Rejects Argument AZ Must Count Ballots Cast in the Wrong Precinct
Same panel as in the other aspect of the Feldman case, same 2-1 split: this time, whether Arizona’s rule that ballots cast by a voter in the wrong precinct should not count (for those races that the voter was… Continue reading
“Some say it’s time California had statewide rules for provisional ballots”
John Myers reports for LAT.
Bernie Sanders Could Try to Flip SuperDelegates Even if He’s Behind in Elected Delegate Count
“Explaining the Blue Shift in Election Canvassing”
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… Continue reading
“Thousands of Voters Are Disenfranchised by North Carolina’s Voting Restrictions”
Ari Berman:
A month after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, North Carolina passed the country’s most sweeping voting restrictions. The Supreme Court refused to block key parts of the law—cuts to early voting, the elimination… Continue reading