You can read the court’s opinion by Judge Jerry Smith, along with separate concurrences by Judge Ho and Costa at this link.Source: Breaking: 5th Circuit Stays Lower Court Order on Challenge to Texas Absentee Voting Rules During a Pandemic, Creating Some Bad Law Along the Way...
Even before the arrival of the coronavirus, I was frequently asked what I saw as the biggest sources of a potential systemic crisis for the fall election—in particular, those risks there might still be time to mitigate.Source: Reducing One Source of a Potential Election Meltdown...
The drive to expand vote-by-mail options amid the coronavirus pandemic has caused a major spike in lawsuits in what was already expected to be a banner year for election-related litigation.Source: 2020 Was Already Expected to Be A Record Year for Election-Related Lawsuits—Then Coronavirus Happened...
By M. Mindy Moretti electionline.org Voters in 24 states will decide who they want to oversee their elections for the next four years. In addition, governor’s races in other states will dictate who overseas elections in those states.Source: electionline Weekly...
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...
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...
