PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Ballot drop-off sites across Allegheny County opened on Saturday.This comes ahead of the Commonwealth's primary election on April 23.So far, the county elections division says more than 35,000 mail-in ballots have already been returned.The locations will be open in seven ...
A state appeals court has upheld a Travis County State district court order allowing Texas counties to have multiple drop-off locations for hand delivery of absentee ballots, undercutting Gov. Greg Abbott's recent directive limiting counties to one drop-off site. ...
Abbott’s order limits mail-in ballot drop-off locations to one per county, shuttering dozens of sites in some of Texas’ largest cities, mostly Democratic strongholds. The appeals court, however, noted that the order also provides Texas voters with 40 additional days to vote absentee and...
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said the order is unrelated to election security as drop-off sites still require photo identification. “Harris County is bigger than the state of Rhode Island, and we’re supposed to have 1 site?” Hidalgo tweeted. “This isn’t security, it’s suppression....
with multiple absentee-ballot collection centers advertised in some counties for weeks. drop-off sites were set up to allow absentee voters to personally submit ballots in advance, rather than depend on the u.s. postal service to deliver them by mail on time, whil...
The move would have closed many drop-off sites in remote locations which might be more vulnerable to tampering. Advertisement - story continues below But Abbot’s order drew criticism from the state’s Democrats and from the national establishment media. Critics equated the decision with voter ...
Voters are encouraged to drop off ballots at designated drop-off sites and drop-boxes in time to be received by the county clerk before the polls close. Postmarks do not count; ballots must be in the hands of the county clerk by 7 p.m. on Election Day in order to be...
ADA ballot marking device available at all drop sites. In Carbon County and Stillwater County you can drop-off ballots at the County Admin Building till 8 pm. Credit: Michael Foth TSM I've been doing absentee voting for years now because it's so convenient. There is one upside to voting...
In court briefs and on Twitter, President Donald Trump and GOP allies have fought ballot drop boxes as part of a war aga
PHOENIX (AP) — With the Trump administration openly trying to undermine mail-in voting this fall, some election officials around the country are hoping to bypass the Postal Service by installing lots of ballot drop boxes in libraries, community centers