10 Aug

Washington (CNN)Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's lead in the Republican primary for governor dropped by more than half to 91 votes after a county clerk discovered a discrepancy in the state's unofficial results.Source: Kris Kobach's lead in Kansas GOP governor's race cut to 91 votes after county clerk discovers discrepancy...

03:09 / 2018 / election / election administration / election integrity / Election Law / recount / states / vblog
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08 Aug

On Tuesday, the last special election before Election Day in the nation takes place in Ohio, and four states are holding primary elections -- Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington. Many analysts seen the race for retired Rep.Source: 2018 primary election: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington...

21:09 / 2018 / absentee / election administration / election integrity / Elections / vblog
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28 Jul

In the weeks before the 2016 election, memes proliferated on Twitter bearing instructions on how to vote by phone or text message. The images were stylized to resemble Hillary Clinton’s campaign materials, and targeted her supporters in both English and Spanish. “Save time. Avoid the line.Source: Is Lying About an Election Free Speech or Fraud?...

16:17 / election administration / election integrity / Election Law / First Amendment / Free Speech / vblog
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28 Jul

(TNS) — Although California has received an “all-clear” from government agencies looking into Russian attempts to hack into voting data for states across the nation, safe today doesn’t mean safe tomorrow, a leading computer security expert warned.Source: Hacking California’s Election System Would Be Difficult, Not Impossible, Experts Say...

16:17 / election administration / election integrity / Technology / vblog / voter fraud
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01 Jun

California's elections officials have found themselves with an unexpected headache ahead of the June 5 primary: potentially thousands of cases where two voter registration forms were created for one person, errors caused by the state's "motor voter" program that launched last month.Source: One voter, two registration forms: Errors reported in rollout of California's 'motor voter' system...

08:10 / California / election administration / election integrity / Election Law / vblog / Voter Registration
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14 May

MIAMI — The elections supervisor in Florida’s second-most populous county broke state and federal law by unlawfully destroying ballots cast in Rep.Source: Florida to monitor Broward election chief after judge finds ‘unlawful’ ballot destruction in Wasserman Schultz race...

14:51 / election administration / election integrity / Election Law / vblog
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17 Apr

In the vast majority of elections, it's the simplest rule of all: You can only vote for one candidate. Make a mark beside the name of more than one person, and that vote doesn't count. Such mistakes are usually rare, which is what made California's U.S. Senate primary in 2016 so worrisome.Source: Tens of thousands of votes are in danger...

16:49 / 2018 / ballot access / California / election administration / vblog / yclass
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