Archive for 2020

Few states in the nation have done more to litigate the issue of student voting than New Hampshire – and it appears the fight is on again after a request to the Attorney General to limit absentee voting by students attending college remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Carter Center, long a presence in elections internationally, is bringing its expertise stateside to help counteract what it views as troubling trends in American democracy.

Virginia’s online voter registration system went dark for several hours on the day of the registration deadline, thanks to a severed utility cable that crippled several state agencies.

California state and local election officials are criticizing state Republicans after reports surfaced over the weekend of unofficial ballot drop boxes being marked as “official.”

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.

A new national data set from the Center for Public Integrity and The Pew Charitable Trusts depicts polling locations for federal elections from 2012-2018, allowing researchers and others to understand the change in voting locations over time.