Archive for October 2020

Today at 1pm Eastern (noon Central/11am Mountain/10am Pacific), the Certificate in Election Administration program will host a webinar entitled “Front-Line Reports on Voting” with a panel of election officials and experts.

Michigan’s Governor has signed a new law that will give larger jurisdictions an extra day to process absentee ballots before Election Day, providing modest but welcome relief to local clerks facing a mountain of mail ballots in 2020.

Maryland’s Anne Arundel County and Baltimore City began counting mail ballots yesterday, making them the early leaders nationwide in the race to handle a surge of early votes for the 2020 general election.

Two lawsuits are challenging last week’s order by Texas’ governor limiting ballot dropboxes to one per county, which forced several urban counties to dramatically scale back their plans.

Residents in the new Alaskan village of Mertarvik – relocated from nearby Newtok when river erosion threatened their homes –  were unable to vote in this year’s primary because the Board of Elections didn’t know they’d moved.