vote by mail

New York may permanently expand voting by mail — something it tried on a wide scale for the first time this year — while also trying to reform its molasses-slow and opaque process for counting absentee ballots.

Two conservative operatives were charged Thursday with felonies in connection with false robocalls that aimed to dissuade residents in Detroit and other U.S. cities from voting by mail, Michigan’s attorney general announced.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut all are offering a vote-by-mail option in addition to in-person voting on Election Day, But the rules covering that process differ from state to state. News 4’s Linda Baquero reports.

The partisan war over how voters cast ballots in a pandemic isn’t just leading more Democrats to plan on voting by mail this fall; it’s also leading far more Democrats than Republicans to heed United State Postal Service warnings to play it safe and get ballots in the mail well before Election Day.

Many Americans are confused about voting by mail and have fears that using the mail to cast your ballot will generate voter fraud. Debra Cleaver, founder and CEO of VOTEAMERICA, a non-profit that helps Americans vote by mail, joined NBCLX to debunk some mail voting myths and sort through conflicting messages on absentee voting.

There’s a lot of concern over the huge number of votes that will be cast by mail in this fall’s presidential election. But there’s also reason for optimism, as NBCLX’s Noah Pransky reports.