Tag: absentee voting

Fraudulent Use of Absentee Ballots, Dirty Voter Rolls Must Be Sorted Out Before 2022 Midterms: Experts

February 21, 2022
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Fraudulent mail-in ballots and dirty voter rolls could spawn a series of messy elections around the country, experts fear, saying their threat to election integrity cannot be underestimated. When a person dies or fails to provide notification of change of address, a “dirty voter roll” is often the result, because the resident essentially remains eligible…

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Post 2020 Election Sees Barrage of Election Bills Limiting or Expanding Mail-in Voting

December 16, 2021
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After the unprecedented expansion of mail-in voting in the 2020 election, dozens of states changed their mail-in voting rules. Republican-leaning states tended to introduce measures to make voting more secure, but less convenient. Democrat-leaning states were more likely on the opposite track. At least 36 states passed bills pertaining in some way to mail-in voting,…

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Florida Passes New Elections Bill Adding Restrictions To Vote-By-Mail And Ballot Drop Boxes

April 30, 2021
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Florida’s Republican-controlled Senate on April 29 passed a new bill that places several restrictions around vote-by-mail and ballot drop boxes.

New Hampshire Senate Rejects Bill That Would Make No Excuse Mail Voting Permanent

March 19, 2021
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The New Hampshire Senate on March 18 rejected a bill that would have made permanent the temporary no-excuse absentee voting put in place last year due to the CCP virus pandemic. New Hampshire relaxed the rules around absentee voting last year, first through guidance from the state’s attorney general and secretary of state and subsequently…

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Texas Governor Backs GOP Bills Seeking to Safeguard Election Integrity

March 16, 2021
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday called on the state legislature to pass bills aimed at preventing election officials from relaxing election rules and processes without authorization. The Lone Star State governor stressed that without measures to tighten election integrity laws across the state, election officials could “jeopardize” the election process by presenting opportunities for people…

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Georgia Secretary of State Calls to End No-Excuse Absentee Voting

December 24, 2020
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Wednesday joined other Republicans in calling to end the state’s current practice of allowing all voters to submit absentee ballots without giving a reason why they cannot vote in person. He said that the system, referred to as “no-excuse” absentee voting, “opens the door to potential illegal voting,…

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