Posts by Doug Chapin

Amy Wilson, training coordinator for the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, will host a webinar today at noon Central on pollworker training, focusing on how adults learn and what it means for election officials who rely upon them for assistance before, during and after Election Day.

The State of Wisconsin will conduct its primary today, despite coronavirus fears, after efforts to cancel in-person voting and extend absentee balloting were rejected in court.

Wisconsin’s April 7 primary is still on as scheduled after an eventful weekend that included an unusually brief special session of the legislature, a lawsuit that reached the U.S. Supreme Court and intense partisan rhetoric over the wisdom of holding in-person voting during the coronavirus pandemic.

Next Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary is still on as scheduled despite lawsuits, criticism and public concern about coronavirus – and the city of Neenah is making the best of it by channeling the spirit of TV’s DIY hero MacGyver and constructing plexiglass shields to protect pollworkers and voters alike.

The entire Pickens County, SC election office – board, election director and staff – have resigned en masse, leaving the office completely empty with just two months before the state’s June primary.

Wisconsin is facing a serious shortage of pollworkers willing to work Election Day for next Tuesday’s primary election – with over 100 municipalities unable to staff any polling places because of fears of coronavirus.

North Carolina’s State Board of Elections has partnered with the Department of Motor Vehicles to offer residents the opportunity to register to vote or update their records online without conducting other DMV business.

Hawaii’s election office is asking all voters to update their signatures in preparation for the state’s transition to vote by mail in 2020. It’s just one of many steps the Aloha State is taking to get ready for the statewide primary in August and this November’s general election.

The March 26, 2020 electionlineWeekly features a story by Whitney May of the Center for Tech and Civic Life about the experiences she and her colleagues had as pollworkers during the March 17 Illinois primary.

A new federal coronavirus stimulus bill, passed unanimously by the Senate and expected to receive House approval today, will provide states with $400 million in federal funds to assist with vote-by-mail and other 2020 election changes necessitated by pandemic-related concerns.