11/3/2020 Most of the potential legal challenges are likely to stem from the huge increase in absentee balloting brought on by pandemic Republicans have began lodging legal challenges to throw out postal votes as US President Donald Trump faces dire poll predictions on US election day. An embittered election race has seen 300 lawsuits already […]
President Trump this week ratcheted up his attacks on mail-in voting as more states move to increase absentee ballot access due to coronavirus uncertainties. The president has levied unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud dating back to the 2016 election and has continued to do so even though he was victorious. But he took his complaints […]
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Marc Veasey, TX-33, co-chair of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus, introduced H.R. 6494, the Postage Free Ballot Act, that will make mail-in absentee ballots free of charge for voters nationwide. Three years after the Supreme Court tasked Congress to update the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Rep. Veasey remains committed to making […]
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (13abc Action News) – Hundreds of voters in northwest Ohio say they have not received their absentee ballots in the mail. The problem starts seems to start at the mail sorting center in Pontiac, Michigan. The ballots were sent from Lucas, Wood and five other counties October 12. But twenty days later, many […]
Is Trump stealing a page out of the Bush/Cheney 2004 election campaign? Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Saturday he doesn’t care for Colorado’s mail elections and suggested ballots that elections workers don’t like might be thrown out. Trump held a rally at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on Saturday. Here’s the quote: “I have real […]
ROCK ISLAND — Authorities want to know why more than 1,500 absentee ballot applications in Rock Island County were not collected and returned to the county clerk’s office. Rock Island County State’s Attorney John McGehee on Friday afternoon confirmed the Rock Island County Sheriff’s Department, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, the U.S. Postal Inspector Service […]
TOLEDO (13abc Action News) – Hundreds of absentee ballots are missing from several counties in Northwest Ohio. Now an investigation is underway to figure out what happened. Those ballots were requested by voters and sent out by county boards of elections in early October. They made it to a sorting center in Pontiac, Michigan but […]
As more and more states rely on vote-by-mail ballots, more and more cities are forced to confront the issue of the reliability of the Postal Service – especially when ballots show up late with no way of verifying that they were mailed on time. Ohio is the latest state to confront this problem, according to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) today called on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to make all possible effort to ensure that Iowa absentee ballots are counted. Specifically, the senators issued a letter to the district managers of the Hawkeye District USPS and the Central Plains District USPS urging […]
Lawmakers and state elections officials are warning that a state law mandating postmarks on absentee ballots has caused the disqualification of dozens of potentially valid votes in recent elections, and could disqualify many more in high-profile statewide contests later this year. After months of debate, legislators have failed to find a solution to the problem […]