(CNN) The US Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request from Texas Democrats to expedite a case concerning access to vote by mail in the state amid the coronavirus pandemic. The court’s move makes it highly unlikely that the issue will be decided in time for the November election. The order is the latest move in […]
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The League of Women Voters of Connecticut and the Connecticut State Conference of the NAACP have filed a lawsuit calling on Secretary of the State Denise Merrill to expand absentee voting for the November election, a move Merrill has made clear she cannot do without the extension of emergency powers by Gov. Ned Lamont or […]
The Johnson County Auditor’s Office announced on Thursday it will “mail every voter in the county a postage paid absentee ballot request form” for the November general election. “Due to public health concerns raised from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Johnson County Auditor’s Office strongly encourages you to vote from home for the November 3, […]
Gov. Asa Hutchinson invited the chairs of the Arkansas Republican and Democratic parties, along with Secretary of State John Thurston, to discuss absentee ballots for the election in November. “State law, as many know, provides that absentee voting is for voters that can request an absentee ballot if they will be unavoidably absent from the […]
As the St. Charles County Election Authority prepares for the Aug. 4 and Nov. 3, 2020, elections, new mail-in and absentee voting measures passed by the Missouri legislature provide additional options for voters during the COVID-19 pandemic. The signing of Senate Bill 631 allows Missouri voters to cast ballots by mail with a notarized ballot […]
On July 1, the day Montclair’s new mayor and council were being sworn in, 1,086 ballots fluttered in the wind outside of town hall — the number of ballots that were not counted and rejected in the May 12 mail-in only election. COVID-19 and the governor’s lockdown brought about many challenges in this year’s Montclair […]
The Iowa Legislative Council unanimously approved an emergency directive to give Iowans living overseas the option of returning ballots electronically for July 7 special elections, but not without first returning to a partisan debate lawmakers had in the final hours of their June session. The approval was needed because of a change legislators made in […]
As if worries about the coronavirus were not enough, some Travis County voters inadvertently failed to ask for the correct ballot when applying to vote by mail. As a result, some voters will get a ballot only for the Texas Senate District 14 race, but not for the various runoffs, mostly in the Democratic primary. […]
A coalition of unlikely allies say that paper ballots will protect voters from disenfranchisement in the upcoming November election. The bipartisan group — including Americans for Tax Reform, R Street, Public Citizen and National Election Defense Coalition (NEDC), among others — penned a letter to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar urging […]
Tennessee became one of the last states to expand mail-in voting earlier this month when Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ruled that voters under 60 can request an absentee ballot because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lyle’s ruling has been appealed by the state of Tennessee, but the Supreme Court said earlier this month it won’t consider […]