Originally created to accommodate overseas military service personnel in World War I, absentee voting has since expanded to include all those expecting to be absent from their precincts on election day. The right to vote, even by absentee ballot, is no trifling concern. A state may restrict it...
If your new home is in a different precinct and you don’t complete your voter registration change of address, then you might not be able to cast a ballot on Election Day, even through mail-in voting How to update your voter registration, state by state: Alabama Update your voter ...
There are instances of PIN theft by camera, of intimidation and crime at ATMs, of theft of ATMs themselves. The poll workers and monitors who serve in fixed locations now might need to be deployed to the qualified ATMs in their precincts, and fitted with data-capable celphones so they cou...
There are instances of PIN theft by camera, of intimidation and crime at ATMs, of theft of ATMs themselves. The poll workers and monitors who serve in fixed locations now might need to be deployed to the qualified ATMs in their precincts, and fitted with data-capable celphones so they cou...
In Maryland during the all-mail primary, the Board of Elections did not attribute ballots cast by mail back to the precinct. The ballots didn’t have codes on them that made that easy. Local county boards can still do if they’re willing. Many won’t because it’s a lot of work but...
The Department of Labor will continue to require Job Corps centers to implement procedures for enrollees to vote, and where local law and leases permit, encourage Job Corps centers to serve as polling precincts. The Department will also provide guidance that grantees can use federal workforce ...
Since my state has an early September primary election we are getting to try out mass mail-in voting early – which is good, because I just learned my town needs to redo mailing ballots to my precinct due to a mix-up (voters started receiving ballots for the wrong party). We do have...
danjhopkins: But the Pennsylvania law wasthrown out by the courts. I happen to know something about voting in Pennsylvania as a voter here, and you only need to show an ID the first time you vote in person at a precinct. sarahf: I think I heard on the podcast that you were registere...
Tennessee – another state now mandating voter IDs – recently waited for four hours on a sweltering July day just to see a DMV clerk. The paper found that the longest lines occur in urban precincts, a clear violation of the Voting Rights Act, which bars states from erecting hurdles to v...
(e.g., a voter registration card). The appropriate blank-ballot image would be obtained via the Internet and loaded into the machine. The resulting printed ballot would be sealed in an envelope by the voter in view of the poll workers, who would mail it to the voter’s home precinct ...