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Absentee Ballots
vision 2020
Sept. 29, 2020
100,000 Brooklyn Voters Possibly Got Ballots With the Wrong Names on Them With the first ballots arriving in New Yorkers’ mailboxes, serious concerns and potential errors are already popping up.
By Matt Stieb
Trump Says Voting by Mail is Evil — Except in Florida Trump executes a selective reversal by suggesting that voting by mail in Florida — but not in other states — is just fine.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
July 17, 2020
It’s Official: Jamaal Bowman Has Defeated Eliot Engel AOC is going to have quite a bit of hometown company in the next Congress.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
July 16, 2020
Why Are We Still Waiting for Results From the New York Primary? More than three weeks after the June 23 primaries, an unprecedented number of absentee ballots are still being counted.
By Adam K. Raymond
Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Contest Any Election Loss By deeming voting-by-mail systems a way a majority of states use to rig elections, POTUS has laid a foundation to declare a close election fraudulent.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Threatens to Cut Off Funds for States That Expand Voting by Mail There’s no legal theory supporting presidential intervention in state election decisions, so Trump may just be preparing to challenge adverse results.
By Ed Kilgore
Here Are the Red States That Limit Voting by Mail to Trump–Approved Groups It’s becoming the GOP party line that the procedure should be limited to seniors and military folk. Some places already follow that rule.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Apr. 6, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court Slams Door on Wisconsin Vote-by-Mail for Mid-Pandemic Primary A few hours after a Wisconsin court reinstated in-person voting, the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court halted an absentee voting extension.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Apr. 6, 2020
Wisconsin Court Reinstates Tuesday’s Mid-Pandemic Primary After intense gubernatorial and legislative conflict and multiple appeals, it looks like Republicans will get the low-turnout election they wanted.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus
Mar. 16, 2020
Can America Vote by Mail in November? Republicans have often held up conveniences to make voting easier. With COVID-19 hitting their own base, they may be more cooperative this year.
By Ed Kilgore
Bevin Blames His Defeat on ‘Vote Harvesting’ Among Students and Black People Like a lot of Republicans, Bevin considers anything that helps poor people vote illegal or unethical.
By Ed Kilgore
Why ‘Election Night’ Is an Outdated and Dangerous Relic of the Past More and more, the traditional media-driven drama of single-day voting and vote counting is out of line with reality. And that’s bad for democracy.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Oct. 24, 2018
Judge Tells Kemp to Send Absentee Ballots to Voters Rejected Over Technicalities One of many efforts by Kemp to supervise his own election in a self-interested way has been stopped.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Oct. 22, 2018
First Early Voting Numbers Are Big. But It’s Not Clear What They Mean Yet. We could see historic levels of early voting, and of midterm voting — but it’s still not clear which party will benefit.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Oct. 15, 2018
The 2018 Midterms Have Already Begun Election Day has already begun in large areas of the nation, and voting by mail could stretch out Election Night as well.
By Ed Kilgore
Typo Decimates Kris Kobach’s Lead in Kansas Primary Kobach’s lead in the Kansas GOP gubernatorial primary is so tiny that changing one number cut his lead by more than half.
By Ed Kilgore
Lamb Was Right to Declare Victory. His Lead in Pennsylvania Is Likely to Hold. It may be a few days before it’s official, but it’s getting hard to figure out how Rick Saccone can close the tiny gap between vote counts.
By Ed Kilgore