Mail Voting
Counties reject or petitions withdrawal all challenges around the state
Observers and officials said they have no reason to believe the machines were tampered with, but the mistake will delay reporting of results.
The totals haven’t matched the levels of 2020, when the pandemic kept many voters home, but they’re running above expectations.
The challenges to ballot applications reportedly target mostly Democrats in several southeastern counties.
An analysis shows that Allegheny County, home to Pittsburgh, can process a similar number of ballots in much less time.
Judge strikes down strict voter assistance rules in Texas’ 2021 rewrite of election laws
Amid devastation, officials must determine which voting sites are still usable, and how to deal with interrupted mail. Their decisions could be pivotal.
Not every clerk has taken advantage of the new Michigan law, but cities that got a head start opening envelopes reported a smoother election night.
We’re also watching races for county clerk and legislative contests featuring election conspiracy theorists.
Most voters had already cast ballots before election day.
Delivery delays threaten to disenfranchise voters, they warn, and service hasn’t improved enough.
The directive seeks to cut down on ballot rejections and resolve inconsistencies in county policies.
The plaintiff is requesting a judge to require voters to return a signed copy of their absentee request with their ballot for it to count.
Counties split on whether to accept ballots from voters who didn’t fill the date in completely. That could mean more litigation.
Since the advent of no-excuse mail voting in 2020, thousands of Pennsylvania ballots have been rejected over missing dates, signatures, or other errors.
An effort to reduce errors — and prevent ballots from being disqualified — backfires as many voters fail to write in the last two digits of the year.
While America waits for results, Runbeck’s machines scan tens of thousands of envelopes for the nation’s largest swing county.
Mail voting has been under attack since 2020. This is how the state secures the system from fraud, and the grey areas remaining in the law.
Groups including the NAACP want the full 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on the issue. A decision is not expected before the April 23 primary.
Party worries that the candidate’s unrelenting false claims about fraud could discourage its supporters from turning out.