ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- Bernalillo County is taking numerous steps to keep voters safe from COVID-19 ahead of the Nov. 3 general election. Officials are encouraging people to vote by mail. They have sent out more than 400,000 applications for absentee ballots. “They need to fill it out right away and mail it back. It’s real easy […]
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By Jennifer Hansler and Patrick Oppmann, CNN For Americans living abroad, voting in US elections has always required extra patience and planning. But now as the coronavirus shut downs commercial flights, mail service in some countries and regular operations in many US embassies, many American citizens living overseas face significant new obstacles to voting in […]
A Michigan resident’s apparent joke showing disdain for voting by mail is no laughing matter for one election official. The resident put a toilet on their lawn with a sign that says, “Place mail in ballots here.” Barb Byrum, the Democratic clerk of Ingham County, filed a complaint with police over the display, saying it […]
An array of unconventional volunteers prepare to work at in-person voting sites to alleviate the elderly and additional workers susceptible to the coronavirus. “I am a little concerned, with our Montgomery County COVID-19 numbers increasing, what that means for the elderly population that has given me an ‘OK’ to put them on our calendar to […]
More than 80 percent of California youth say they are strictly adhering to social distancing guidelines and 2 out of 3 are concerned about lifting public health restrictions too quickly, according to a new poll the University of California released today (Sept. 21). This new survey of Californians ages 18 to 24 highlights a sharp […]
Governor McMaster signed the COVID-19 Absentee Voting Bill. Formally titled H. 5305, the bill was sponsored by State Representatives Mandy Powers Norrell (D-Lancaster), Brandon Newton (R-Lancaster), and Jay Lucas (R-Darlington). The bill establishes “COVID-19 voting-related procedures for the 2020 general election” and “authorizes absentee voting for all qualified electors residing or voting in an area […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin can be counted up to six days after the Nov. 3 presidential election as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. The highly anticipated ruling, unless overturned, means that the outcome of the presidential race in Wisconsin might not […]
As a record number of voters in California prepare to cast vote-by-mail ballots in the upcoming election, the state of California has passed a bill making the intentional spread of misinformation about mail-in voting a violation of the law. Senate Bill 739, which was first introduced to legislative authorities in February of 2019 and whose […]
Amid widespread alarm about the ability of the embattled U.S. Postal Service to deliver mailed election ballots on time, pandemic-wary voters are now being told that in-person voting this fall may not be as risky as initially thought. “We’ve got to vote early, in person if we can,” former first lady Michelle Obama declared during […]
Ohio Democrats on Tuesday sued the state’s top election official over his refusal to provide more ballot drop boxes for absentee voters in the battleground state. Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, recently decided that each of Ohio’s 88 counties will get only one drop box to collect absentee ballots in the 2020 election. […]