Applications for a mail-in ballot will be sent to all 1.2 million registered voters in Nebraska. It’s the ninth state to make such a move in an effort to promote remote voting because of the coronavirus pandemic. But it’s by far the most Republican state to do so, notable given President Trump’s persistent and false […]
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law Thursday a three-part package of bills that allows New Yorkers to immediately submit applications to get absentee ballots and expand who can request them. The third piece ensures that all absentee ballots postmarked on or before Election Day or received by the Board of Elections without a postmark on […]
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy confirmed that he will not restore mail collecting and processing capacity that the U.S Postal Service has lost in recent weeks, when pressed by U.S. Senator Tom Carper in a Senate Homeland Security Committee Friday. “Senator, as I said, I did not direct that, I stopped it. It’s insignificant, it’s not […]
NBA star LeBron James on Friday shut down a misleading ad that quotes him and uses his image while promoting the unfounded theory that voting by mail leads to widespread voter fraud. In a series of tweets, James condemned anyone using his or others’ names to “lie and deceive about the election” and said “misinformation=suppression.” […]
Virginia is making it less stressful to vote by mail this year. Every mail-in ballot will have a smart bar code included on it to allow both Virginia residents and their local registrar to track the vote. The Albemarle County Registrar’s Office says that in addition to the bar code, it’s also redesigned its envelopes […]
A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Sunday halted the Trump campaign’s lawsuit against the state over how it sends and counts mail-in ballots. Nicholas Ranjan of the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Pennsylvania, who was appointed by President Trump, ruled Sunday that Trump’s lawsuit against the secretary of state and 67 county […]
A federal judge has ruled that Indiana law governing the process of approving or rejecting absentee ballots based on signature matching is unconstitutional because it doesn’t require voters be notified and doesn’t offer a means to contest such a decision. In Indiana, county election boards compare the signature on an absentee ballot application with the […]
Like his parents, Army Col. Bob Akam voted by mail-in ballot throughout his military career, only casting his first vote in person with his wife at a polling site in Stone Oak after closing out 30 years in uniform. He thought the ballots were secure but made certain to mail his early. Asked if he’s […]
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb resisted calls to implement no-excuse mail-in voting but denied it was due to federal pressure. He vowed to revisit the issue after the state attorney general reviewed the legality of expanding vote-by-mail. Indiana is one of nine states requiring a reason to cast an absentee ballot for the Nov. 3 election. […]
California is moving forward with plans to distribute millions of mail-in ballots to registered voters for the November election, despite continued political assaults by President Donald Trump claiming the process is unsafe. KCRA 3 brought the allegations to Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who oversees election administration in California. “Voters can absolutely trust the vote-by-mail […]