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Printing Errors Mar Mailed Ballots in Pennsylvania, Oregon
In Pennsylvania, where GOP primaries for governor and U.S. Senate are drawing national attention, officials in Republican-leaning Lancaster County said the company that printed its mailed ballots included the wrong ID code.
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Texas Mail Ballot Rejections Soar Under New Restrictions
The number of rejected mail ballots in Texas soared to nearly 13% across most counties in the nation’s first election of 2022
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Judge Deals Texas Narrow Defeat Over Mail-In Ballot Limits
A federal judge has handed Texas’ elections overhaul a partial defeat days ahead of 2022′s first primary.
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NBCLX Tracked Voting Laws in Every State. Here's What We Learned
Voting laws vary among all 50 states, and there was no simple tool to track all those differences. So NBCLX built one. Storyteller Peter Hull explains Project Democracy and the ballot access map, and we review some of the most striking differences in voting rights from Texas to Maine, with the help of Morning Consult senior reporter Eli Yokley.
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Census Bureau: 70% of Voters Cast Ballots Early Or by Mail
The U.S. Census says more than two-thirds of U.S. citizens of the voting age population cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential election
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Florida GOP Awaits Governor's Signature on New Voting Rules
Florida Republicans have moved to rewrite a litany of rules that they said would enhance the integrity of future elections.
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Voter Outreach Led to Big Drop in Rejected Mail Ballots, Analysis Finds
A surge of absentee ballots during last year’s election led to concerns that a larger percentage of mailed ballots could be rejected for arriving past the deadline, not having a voter’s signature or some other reason
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No Partisan Benefit From Mail Voting in 2020 Election: Study
A new study finds the expansion of mail voting did not benefit Democrats or increase turnout
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Thousands of Atlanta Ballots at Risk Ahead of Pivotal Georgia Senate Runoffs as Mail Delays Drag On
Atlanta-area mail delays, which Postmaster Louis DeJoy promised would improve following a national slowdown last summer, remain far below US Postal Service standards, threatening to disenfranchise thousands of legal voters who mailed in ballots in a pair of pivotal U.S. Senate runoffs this week.
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A Signature Issue: How Aggressive Will Georgia Be in Rejecting Mail Ballots?
If a signature on a ballot doesn’t perfectly match the signature on the state’s voter roll – should that mail ballot count? And do elections offices even have experts qualified to determine if a signature is mismatched?
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Signature Matching Rules Are Disenfranchising Too Many Legal Voters
More than 100,000 legit voters likely had their legit ballots rejected this fall for messy signatures – and some states are pushing to increase those numbers next election. So NBCLX’s Noah Pransky explains why it’s so important we push our elected officials to carefully balance voter protections with voter fraud protections.
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Man Accused of Illegally Voting for Trump Under Names of Dead Mother and Mother-in-Law
A Delaware County man is accused of illegally voting for President Donald Trump under the names of his deceased mother and deceased mother-in-law.
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Postal Service Delays Disenfranchised Thousands of Legally-Cast Ballots This Fall
Because more than half the states – including most of the key battlegrounds – don’t provide a grace period for ballots that arrive after Election Day, it is likely 25,000-50,000 ballots nationwide were ultimately rejected because of USPS problems.
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How Many Ballots Did Postal Service Delays Actually Disenfranchise During the 2020 Election?
While U.S. Postal Service workers likely delivered more than 99.9% of the country’s mail ballots in time to be counted this year, it also appears that tens of thousands were disenfranchised by postal delays.
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Trump Backers Converge on Vote Centers in Michigan, Arizona
The protests came as the president insisted without evidence that there were major problems with the voting and the ballot counting, especially with mail-in votes, and as Republicans filed suit in various states over the election.
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Gov. of Pennsylvania: Trump Lawsuit ‘Goes Against the Most Basic Principles of Our Democracy'
Gov. Tom Wolf spoke at a press conference on Wednesday to condemn the lawsuit filed against the state of Pennsylvania and assure voters that all ballots would be counted.
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Fact Checking President Trump's Election Night Address
President Trump addressed supporters from the White House after 2 a.m., and falsely claimed victory over Joe Biden with millions of crucial swing state votes yet to be counted. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker runs through a number of claims Trump made in his speech to separate fact from fiction.
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Long Lines, Enthusiasm But No Major Problems as US Votes
Voters in the U.S. are marking the end of a fraught U.S. election season at the polls. They’re casting the last of what will likely be a record-setting number of ballots. At least 101.9 million people voted early, meaning turnout is expected to reach record levels despite a global pandemic that has upended long-established election procedures and triggered hundreds of...
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Election Night 101: What You Need to Know About Early Voting and the Electoral College as the Results Roll In
On the eve of Election Day, John Fortier of the Bipartisan Policy Democracy Project explains what you need to know to interpret the presidential race results as they begin rolling in on Election Night. What do the historic surges in early voting mean for President Trump and Joe Biden, and how can the Electoral College hand the White House to...
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Don't Be Fooled if These States Show Surprising Leads for Trump or Biden on Election Night
It’s time to remake our electoral map so voters are prepared for a “red mirage” and “blue mirage” on Election Night