Rural South Dakota voters reject proposal to require hand-counting of ballots
Voters in three small South Dakota counties on Tuesday rejected a measure that would have required manual vote counting in future elections. The votes in Gregory, Haakon and Tripp counties were an unusual step as other parts of the U.S. consider moving to manual counting in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s claims of […]
Trump team embraces early voting, mail-in ballots for 2024 election
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday formally supported early, mail-in and absentee voting, reversing course from his previous criticism and questioning the legitimacy of these methods. Non-traditional voting methods are included in the Swamp The Vote USA initiative and are promoted by Trump Force 47, a grassroots organizing program backed by the Republican National Committee. […]
Arizona Judge Approves Lake Request to Examine Ballots
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has approved Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s request to have ballots inspected as she prepares for trial in her ongoing challenge to the state’s gubernatorial contest. Judge Peter Thompson on Thursday issued the ruling, which allows the inspection of random ballots in the county ahead of the trial date. […]
In Georgia, fierce state Supreme Court race, Republican congressional primary top ballots
Georgia’s elections on Tuesday include a state Supreme Court race unusually heated by the sleepy standards of the state’s bipartisan judicial races, and the heavily Republican 3rd Congressional District south and west of Atlanta. It includes a five-way Republican primary for the vacant seat. . Two Democratic incumbents, Rep. David Scott and Rep. Lucy McBath, […]
Proposed Abortion Amendments Qualify for Ballots in Colorado, South Dakota
Officials in South Dakota and Colorado have approved amendments that enshrine the right to abortion in their state constitutions. Republican South Dakota Secretary of State Monae Johnson released a statement Thursday saying her office approved the abortion bill after certifying it had the required number of signatures to appear on the November ballot. Announced by […]
In Nevada’s Biggest County, Nearly 40,000 Ballots Counted Despite Arriving After Election Day 2022
As a Nevada law allowing mail ballots received up to four days after Election Day to be counted faces a legal challenge, a fresh look at Nevada’s 2022 vote count reveals the potentially election-flipping number of mail ballots that were counted despite arriving after Election Day. In just Clark County, nearly 40,000 mail ballots were […]
Primary ballots give Montana voters a chance to re-think their local government structures
Montana’s primary ballots being considered this year will provide voters with a unique opportunity to audit the structure and powers of city and county government. This review of local government is listed at the end of the ballot as a “Committee Question.” Most urban voters will see two entries for him. One is the city […]
Border Crisis Could Increase Number of Illegal Ballots Cast in 2024 — up to 2.7M
Do non-citizens vote in US elections? The answer, of course, is “yes, it is.”That’s the subject of the latest episode Drill downfeaturing co-host Eric Eggers and his 2018 book scam We investigated the history and various ways in which election fraud has historically occurred in U.S. elections. a recent academic research Research based on surveys […]
Count all ballots on Election Day
Voters in California‘s 16th Congressional District, which includes the cities of Palo Alto, Los Gatos, and Half Moon Bay, went to the polls on March 5 to choose a successor to retiring Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA). Not until nearly two months later, on May 2, were the top two vote-getters in the jungle primary identified. […]
‘A gift to MAGA election deniers’: New Georgia law requires absentee ballots to be counted, reported on Election Night
Georgia’s new voting reform bill, just signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, requires all absentee ballots to be counted and results reported on election night. On Monday, Kemp signed. SB189, which makes several important changes to Georgia’s election procedures. The bill eliminated some of the potential conflicts of interest between the Secretary of State, the […]