While citizens in some states, like Oregon, are used to voting in all of their elections by mail, about half of the states do not have vote-by-mail as either an available or widely available option.Source: Vote-by-mail delivers an array of problems...
Thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands, of Wisconsin voters may have their ballots tossed out for the most arbitrary of reasons: because the post office either did not place a postmark on their absentee ballot when it was mailed in, or because that postmark doesn’t have a date.Source: Thousands of Wisconsin ballots could be thrown out because they don’t have...
The United States postal service said Friday it is investigating potential issues with absentee ballots in Wisconsin, which held a highly controversial primary on Tuesday in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Eric Bradner and Ariane de Vogue contributed to this story.Source: Postal Service looking into absentee ballot delivery irregularities in Wisconsin...
As Wisconsin scrambled to expand voting by mail for its election on Tuesday, many absentee voters said their ballots went undelivered. Three tubs of absentee ballots that never reached voters were discovered in a postal center outside Milwaukee.Source: Inside Wisconsin’s Election Mess: Thousands of Missing or Nullified Ballots...
Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu announced Thursday that the state will allow voters to cast mail-in ballots in the November general election if coronavirus is still a factor this fall.Source: New Hampshire Gov. Sununu to allow absentee voting in November because of coronavirus outbreak...
That doesn’t reflect reality, however. Oregon has seen over 100 million mail-in ballots since switching to vote-by-mail in 1998, and no one has ever found significant numbers of fraudulent votes. In 2016, out of over 2 million voters, only 10 Oregonians were convicted of vote fraud.Source: America might survive coronavirus. But will the election?...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. election officials looking to construct a safe voting system in a worsening coronavirus pandemic are confronting a grim reality: there may not be enough time, money or political will to make it happen by the November election.Source: Coronavirus emerges as major threat to U.S. election process...
Elections should not be among the victims of the coronavirus. Mr. Bauer, Mr. Ginsberg and Mr. Persily were members of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.Source: We Must Vote in November. This Is How to Ensure That We Can....
This document benefited from the input of multiple election officials and voting rights experts and may be updated to account for new developments and comments. The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) presents a difficult and novel challenge to the administration of the 2020 general election.Source: How to Protect the 2020 Vote from the Coronavirus...
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. Pop quiz: Name the last major-party presidential nominee who tapped into the publicly financed Presidential Election Campaign Fund.Source: A massive government fund sits idle and bloated. Could lawmakers tap it for coronavirus relief?...
