The fact that the American people have only one chance to hold our national presidential election makes it all the more important that we get it right. The valid concerns Trump and others have raised about problems with mail-in voting must not be dismissed.
“The House Democrats are trying to link the issue to mail-in ballots and they’re throwing an increasingly bizarre set of conspiracy theories out to try to make it seem as though the new postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, is destroying the Postal Service. That’s just not the case.”
The United States Postal Service sent letters to 46 states and Washington D.C. warning that ballots may be delivered after ballot counting deadlines in November, according to a report from The Washington Post Friday.
The final votes of the 2020 primaries were cast Tuesday concluding a primary season marred by confusion, lawsuits and a United States Postal Service Inspector General investigation.
The card wasn’t forwarded by the U.S. Post Office — it was mailed directly from Vermont to Tennessee, former WVNY-22 news anchor Gary Wheelock reported on Facebook last week.
Election officials in three battleground states wouldn’t say when the U.S. can expect the results from November’s presidential race, and an official in a fourth state said the timing is uncertain.
Judge Analisa Torres ordered more than 1,000 uncounted absentee ballots without postmarks cast in New York’s June 23 Democratic primary to be counted in a ruling Monday.
A debate is raging over how elections are to be held in the fall. Is a pandemic reason to hold an election by mail? Would widespread mail-in voting lead to voter fraud and skew election results? Hans von Spakovsky joins the podcast to discuss.
Secretary of State Jim Condos on Monday issued a directive to mail ballots to every active registered voter for the general election, but some critics say the move will let ballots end up in the wrong hands, and make it nearly impossible to verify who’s voting.
Under the Secretary’s 2020 Statewide Elections Directive, ballots will be mailed to every active registered voter for the 2020 General Election. Active registered voters are those voters who have not been issued a challenge by the local Boards of Civil Authority.
Nearly 50% of American voters believe mail-in voting is likely to result in significant fraud as officials search for ways to secure the electoral system amid a]the coronavirus pandemic, a Washington Post/ABC poll published Sunday found.
In the 25th episode of “Travels With Charlie — Vermont Politics in Real Life,” host Charlie Papillo discusses controversial vote-by-mail elections with Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos and former state Rep. Paul Dame.