Mail-in Voting

The campaign alleged the state’s ballot procedures violated the Constitution and opened the door to widespread voter fraud, to which the judge wrote Thursday that the fraud claims rest on “highly speculative fear”

With less than two weeks left until Election Day, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced that more than 2 million voters New Jersey have already cast their mail-in ballots for this year’s elections — a number equivalent to 55% of the voter turnout in 2016. “With still 12 days to go until the Nov. 3 election day, we are already…

Time was dwindling for thousands of North Carolina voters to fix absentee voting errors as elections officials hustled out an updated process for handling mail-in ballot problems two weeks before Election Day.

The Roots’ Tariq Trotter sings a special rap that explains how to fill out a Pennsylvania mail-in ballot.

A crucial part of voting by mail involves voters signatures on their ballot, which must not be forgotten — and if it doesn’t match records, the vote may not count. NBC New York’s Lynda Baquero reports.

State officials say more than 1 million people have cast ballots already in New Jersey, or about 30% of the turnout in the 2016 presidential

A record-setting amount of early voting has changed the 2020 election

Election officials notified prosecutors of a discrepancy when two ballot requests were submitted for a woman who died earlier this year. Greg Cergol reports.

With the clock ticking down to Election Day, officials are cautiously optimistic New York has fixed problems with mail-in voting that led to delays and disenfranchisement in a rocky June primary.

In about two weeks, New Jersey already submitted more than one million ballots, Gov. Phil Murpphy said, and many faced long lines as they try to submit their ballots in person. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

The U.S. Postal Service agreed Wednesday to reverse changes that slowed mail service nationwide

Recent election fraud problems in Paterson are being used by President Trump to question vote-by-mail ballots, but election experts say the problems there are the exception rather than the rule. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports on the lessons learned in New Jersey’s third-largest city, and whether the problems have been addressed.

Last election, 200,000 voters were purged due to technicalities and how to stop that this year, Chris Glorioso reports.

A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier from Hudson County, New Jersey, was arrested for discarding mail, including 99 general election ballots sent from the County Board of Elections that were intended to be delivered to West Orange residents, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Nicholas Beauchene, 26, of Kearny, is charged by complaint with one count of delay, secretion, or detention…

A postal carrier is under arrest in connection with the case. News 4’s Lynda Baquero reports.

A federal judge has declined to issue a preliminary injunction sought by the Trump campaign to stop New Jersey’s mail-in ballot program

Attorneys representing New Jersey argued Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in a separate mail-in ballot dispute in South Carolina — though it favored the GOP’s position — actually buttressed their argument that the injunction should be denied

Lynda Baquero reports.

The Supreme Court has reinstated a requirement that South Carolina residents voting by mail in November’s election get a witness to sign their ballots.

If you’ve been voting in person on Election Day all your adult life, you may think everyone should vote the same way in every election. But voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams explains why election systems works better when people have multiple ways to cast their ballots.