Tag: Ballot Bulletin

With 27 days until Election Day, overlapping court orders in North Carolina and South Carolina have modified absentee/mail-in voting procedures. North Carolina On Sept. 22, the North Carolina State Board of Elections announced a series of proposed modifications to the state’s absentee/mail-in voting procedures: Absentee/mail-in ballot receipt deadline extended to 5 p.m. on Nov. 12…

In the last two weeks, a court order and a settlement have resulted in modifications to several mail-in voting procedures in Pennsylvania. State directs counties not to reject ballots due to signature mismatch On Sept. 14, the League of Women Voters and the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh dropped a lawsuit against the state after…

On Sept. 1, Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced they would donate a combined total of $300 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life and the Center for Election Innovation and Research in a bid “to promote safe and reliable voting in states and localities during…

On Aug. 14, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) issued an executive order establishing that the Nov. 3 general election will be conducted “primarily via vote-by-mail ballots.” Election officials will automatically deliver mail-in ballots to all active registered voters in advance of the election. Murphy’s order makes the following temporary modifications to New Jersey’s election administration procedures:…

On Aug. 3, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) signed AB4 into law, directing election officials to automatically send mail-in ballots to all active registered voters in the Nov. 3 general election. How did the bill become law? The legislation was introduced in the Nevada Assembly on July 31 and referred to the Committee of the…

With the primary election season coming to a close, election administrators across the country are turning their attention to Nov. 3, modifying voting procedures in response to the continued effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. To date, at least 21 states have modified voting procedures for the Nov. 3 general election. Six states (Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts,…

In Louisiana, the candidate qualifying period opens on July 22 and closes on July 24. With the filing period upon us, the time is ripe for examining Louisiana’s one-of-a-kind system in greater depth, and for introducing Ballotpedia’s preferred term for the system: Louisiana majority-vote system. How do elections work in Louisiana? Louisiana’s electoral system for…

On June 25 and June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to intervene in two lawsuits involving COVID-19 and election administration. The first was a suit out of Ohio involving remote signature gathering for ballot initiatives. The second was a suit out of Texas dealing with absentee voting eligibility. Thompson v. DeWine…