LaTosha Brown spent three hours in line last month waiting to vote in Georgia’s primary. After finally casting her ballot, she delivered pizza and encouragement to others in Black-majority districts of Atlanta who faced even longer delays. “Do you know how traumatic it is in 2020 to wait out there five, six hours to vote?” says Brown, […]
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Absentee voters left waiting in Missouri
We have been hearing of concerns about people not receiving absentee and mail-in ballots for the primary election. So, KCTV5’s Kaci Jones looked into the process of voting in this election. This is the first time Missouri has allowed mail-in voting, creating a heavier workload for local election boards. We are just days away from […]
Common Cause Indiana and the Indiana NAACP are suing Indiana in federal court over what they say is its “unjustifiably early” deadline to return absentee vote-by-mail ballots. There’s increased attention on vote-by-mail this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The deadline for an Indiana voter to return a vote-by-mail ballot to their county election office is […]
The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to hear a case seeking to extend the deadline to receive absentee ballots ahead of the presidential election in the swing state. In a 4-3 order Friday, just days before the state’s Aug. 4 primary, justices said they were not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed. A […]
Idaho should move to all-mail voting for the November election. That means mailing a ballot to every registered voter in Idaho. But to do so, state officials need to act quickly to give county clerks ample time to prepare. Voting by mail is the right thing to do for a number of reasons, the most […]
One reason not to buddy up to your local clerk: when they’re short on poll workers, friends sometimes get called action. “Usually, if there aren’t enough [election inspectors], clerks start calling their family and friends and using persuasion to get them to work,” Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum said. “We’ve been there.” This year is […]
State elections officials say they’re making headway on streamlining absentee ballot tracking by using so-called intelligent bar codes, after a crush of complaints from voters who never received ballots in this spring’s election. Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe wrote in a report to commissioners ahead of a Thursday evening meeting that staff has been […]
Rhode Island’s top elections official has proposed mobilizing the National Guard to help process what’s expected to be an overwhelming number of mail-in ballot applications for November’s general election from people concerned about heading to the polls during the coronavirus pandemic. Local elections officials in Rhode Island — or Boards of Canvassers — were flooded […]
New York lawmakers acted on a host of voter protection measures this week, including a long-stalled bill adopting automatic voter registration. Democrats, who control both the Senate and Assembly, reached a deal and passed reworked legislation that will automatically register New Yorkers to vote when they visit a DMV or other state agencies. The bill […]
A progressive advocacy group so far has contacted 275,000 young Arizonans by phone and text to ask them to make sure they are registered to vote and consider using a mail-in ballot. “During a pandemic, voting by mail is absolutely essential to ensure that everyone casts their ballots safely,” Azza Abuseif, NextGen America’s Arizona state director, […]