Archive for February 2020

Wisconsin’s Election Commission is balking at a state law that would require all absentee voters to receive two, partially duplicate, ballots in the upcoming April 7 election.

California’s Secretary of State has rolled out a new service that will allow Golden State voters in many counties to check on the status of their vote-by-mail ballot.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently announced that it has created an election security “tabletop in a box” for use by local officials in planning for potential threats to their election systems.

Miscommunication between Illinois’ Department of Corrections and the State Board of Elections resulted in the cancellation of the voter registrations for 774 former inmates.

Last week, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated as discriminatory an Arizona law prohibiting voters from returning other voters’ mail ballots. Now, the state’s Attorney General wants to put that decision on hold while he seeks Supreme Court review.