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...
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...
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...
Columbus, Ohio – Politicians of all stripes expressed frustration Tuesday after Ohio’s primary was postponed until June by the state’s elected officials amid concerns attendance at polling places would contribute to coronavirus pandemic.Source: Ohio Democratic Party sues over delay of primary election...
Voters are unnerved. Confusion is growing throughout the country as the coronavirus outbreak moves states to postpone primaries and change voting procedures in the midst of a presidential election year.Source: Could Trump delay the November election? Not without risking forfeit to a Democrat...
As states likely expand the use of mail ballots in response to the COVID-19 breakout, they need to also protect the integrity of mail ballots to prevent both the appearance of impropriety and actual fraud this November.Source: States Must Protect Integrity of Mail Ballots in Response to Coronavirus...
The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that Justice Sonia Sotomayor will no longer participate in one of two hot-button cases this term concerning so-called faithless presidential electors, or those who vote for someone other than the state's popular vote winner.Source: Justice Sonia Sotomayor won't participate in Colorado faithless elector case...
ATLANTA (AP) — Election integrity activists are raising concerns about Georgia’s new voting machines, saying the large, bright, vertical touchscreens allow other people in the room to see a voter’s selections in violation of ballot secrecy provisions in state law.Source: Activists raise concerns about privacy of voting machines...
