In one rural county, several individuals requested absentee ballots on behalf of hundreds of voters. What happened to those ballots? ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C.Source: North Carolina investigators zero in on absentee ballots in unresolved House race...
Cheryl Kinlaw told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte, N.C., that Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. paid her $100 to collect ballots in their district, adding that Dowless “has been doing it for years."Source: Second woman says she was paid to collect absentee ballots in North Carolina House race...
SAN FRANCISCO — A growing chorus of Republicans are casting doubts about the integrity of the voting system in California, where the party lost at least six House seats in the midterm election — including a handful where the GOP at first appeared to have emerged victorious on election night.Source: GOP cries foul after California thumping...
Nearly two decades after the world learned about hanging chads, Florida is under scrutiny again as officials count and recount votes in three statewide races. Hanging chads are long gone from Florida, but many of the same issues that plagued the state during the 2000 election remain.Source: Nearly 2 Decades After Hanging Chads, Florida Encounters Another Election Nightmare...
Georgia elections officials scrambled Thursday to count a cache of potentially more than 1,000 ballots that were previously rejected as they raced to comply with the latest federal ruling in the too-close-to-call contest for governor.Source: A judge’s order scrambles unsettled Georgia race for governor...
Not that California elections are predictable, but most every cycle over the past twenty years has played out as follows: 8:00 p.m.: Polls close. 8:01 p.m.: Democrats uncork the champagne. 8:01:30 p.m.: Republicans surf Zillow for property in Nevada.Source: California’s 2018 Vote: Limited Drama, Plenty of Uncounted Votes, And Lots of Needed Repairs...
After the presidential recount in 2000 that helped launch the nickname “Flori-duh” into the nation’s vernacular, state lawmakers passed a sweeping set of election reforms. The butterfly ballot? Gone. Hanging chads? Banished.Source: Florida tried to fix its elections after 2000. Why are today’s recounts so messy?...
It’s been a week since Election Day, and we’re still awaiting results from Florida and Georgia, where nationally prominent races are too close to call. Since Election Day, an additional 50,000 votes have been counted in Florida, narrowing the lead for Republican Gov.Source: Why we’re still waiting for election results from Florida and Georgia — and why newly counted ballots...
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Department of State last week asked federal prosecutors to investigate dates that were changed on official state election documents, the first voting “irregularities” it has flagged in the wake of the 2018 elections.Source: Federal prosecutors reviewing altered election documents tied to Florida Democrats...
Democrat Stacey Abrams has vowed not to concede to Republican Brian Kemp and plans to file a federal class-action lawsuit to push back the date of certification until every ballot has been logged. WXIASource: Federal judge orders review of all provisional ballots in Georgia, delays deadline for certification...
