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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) - As of Monday, more than 635,000 absentee ballots have been cast in North Carolina. State data shows about 98 percent of them have been accepted, but that still leaves thousands of others with issues. Now voters have a chance to fix them. **SNIP** The state is now directing county boards of election to notify voters about problems with their ballots so they can correct them. “We’re going to push to get everything out as fast as we can. We’ve got an entire team working on it,” said Wake County Director of Elections Gary Sims. He said...

I sent in my absentee ballot today from Spain. It arrived yesterday. Because it's official business there was no postmark but there was a date of 9/18/2020 on the address label, so if they sent it that day it would have taken 12 days to arrive here. Not bad. The bad part is that I send mail to people in America and it has been taking ages to arrive ever since the lockdowns started. I've had to resend a couple because they never showed up and mail I sent to 2 FReepers in 2 different parts of the country in...

Just YESTERDAY got information on requesting an absentee ballot and I see they've changed the system since 2016 . I am already registered but have to register again and request a ballot which now can't be done online for those of us living abroad so have to print out the form ( I don't have a printer so will have to ask someone to print out for me ) and mail it to Suffolk County , NY . Then they will mail ballot to me and then I have to mail it back to them ! This will take over...

We applied on-line in early February for an absentee ballot based on our last address in Savannah. My wife got an e-mail linking her to a site where she was supposed to be able to download and print a ballot, but no link was found in the e-mail. So I called up the Chatham County Voter Registration office, and spoke with a most gracious lady of the South, who was very helpful and re-sent the e-mail to my wife, this time with the link, and a new postcard application which I filled out, scanned in and sent back, and a...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A lawsuit filed Tuesday asks a federal judge to require Arkansas election officials to give absentee voters a chance to correct their ballots before they're rejected due to signature issues. The League of Women Voters of Arkansas argues in the lawsuit that Arkansas law regarding absentee ballots disenfranchises voters because they're not given any notice or chance to cure any deficiencies. State law requires election officials to reject absentee ballots that are missing a voter's signature or if there's a mismatch between the signature, address or date of birth on the absentee ballot and the...

MATTHEWS, N.C. (AP/ WSPA) — Election officials in North Carolina say a mix up in sending the first absentee ballots caused some voters to receive two identical ballots for the November general election. Mecklenburg County election officials said this week that some ballots intended for voters in Matthews were mislabeled with the wrong names and were shredded before they could be sent. When officials printed new mailing labels to correct the mistake, some voters ended up getting two duplicate ballots.

President Trump on Wednesday suggested supporters in North Carolina should illegally attempt to vote both by mail and in person, saying doing so would test the integrity of the system. Asked by reporters whether he trusted North Carolina's mail-in balloting system, the president responded, "Let them send it in, and let them go vote, and if their system's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote." "If it's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If...

It's best to double check with your state for any recent changes to election rules in your state. Absentee ballot applications must be received by the deadline, not just postmarked by the deadline. COVID-19 Info: This information may have have changed in your state’s next election, check the COVID-19 page for info.

(Reuters) - A U.S. judge late on Monday ordered all local boards of election in New York state to count “thousands” of absentee ballots received the day after a congressional primary held last June 23 but previously disqualified because of postmark problems. According to the ruling by Judge Analisa Torres of Federal District Court in Manhattan, the absentee ballots are to be counted “without regard to whether such ballots are postmarked by June 23.” Carolyn Maloney, the Democratic Party incumbent, got 40.29% of votes previously counted, while challenger Suraj Patel received 38.43%. The ruling also ordered ballots received on June...

From Frank Sinatra's hometown in Hoboken, N.J., to LA's Skid Row, dozens of mail-in, absentee and ballot box fraud cases have emerged. Many news media, political activists and social media giants have gotten on the bandwagon that voter fraud is fiction. It is not. A review of court cases and recent indictments – including one this week in Philadelphia against a former congressman – finds there have been at least four dozen cases in criminal and civil court since the last presidential election in 2016 in which voter fraud has led to charges, convictions, lawsuits or plea deals. The schemes...

Washington (CNN) Georgia voters will receive additional time to correct their rejected absentee ballots following last week's calamitous primary. Following a legal challenge by state Democrats on Friday, voters will now get three business days after the date they are notified that their ballot is rejected to fix issues, Georgia election director Chris Harvey said in a statement. "Any absentee ballots that have been rejected should have a cure notice mailed (and emailed, if applicable) to the voter as soon as possible," Harvey said. Counties have been struggling with the review process amid an overwhelming volume of absentee ballots that...

Michigan’s secretary of state announced Tuesday morning that all registered voters in the crucial general election battleground state will be mailed an application to vote by mail in November. “By mailing applications, we have ensured that no Michigander has to choose between their health and their right to vote,” Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson wrote in a statement. “Voting by mail is easy, convenient, safe, and secure, and every voter in Michigan has the right to do it,” she said. Benson said that 1.3 million of the state’s 7.7 million registered voters are on the permanent absentee ballot list, which...

Eric Holder, who served as former President Barack Obama’s attorney general, said the quiet part out loud this week and admitted he saw coronavirus as “an opportunity” to permanently change the way Americans voted. “Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system so that it permanently becomes more inclusive and becomes easier for the American people to access,” Holder said in an interview with TIME magazine. He called for a “sea change” in voting systems, allowing Americans to vote from home, using prepaid mail-in ballots and unlimited absentee voting. Holder did not discuss concerns about voter fraud in...

‘Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” That quote isn’t from President Trump, who criticized mail-in voting this week after Wisconsin Democrats tried and failed to change an election at the last minute into an exclusively mail-in affair. It’s the conclusion of the bipartisan 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III.

Hundreds of absentee ballots mailed back to the City of Madison for Tuesday's election may not be counted, thanks to a missing postmark. The problem is one that is emerging in communities across Wisconsin as election officials prepare to tally the results of an election conducted during the coronavirus pandemic. During a Friday meeting of the bipartisan state Elections Commission, Democrats tried to have more absentee ballots counted, but Republicans said they had little ability to do that because of the U.S. Supreme Court decision. The commissioners unanimously agreed to count absentee ballots that arrived after election day that were...

Attention turned to missing absentee ballots Wednesday as state officials reported three tubs of them were discovered in a mail processing center and the Milwaukee Election Commission called for an investigation into a separate set of undelivered ballots. And Fox Point officials said 100 or more ballots a day were returned to the village as undelivered in the week leading up to the election. The discoveries emerged as would-be voters across the state expressed a host of frustrations about trying to obtain absentee ballots so they could avoid going to the polls during the coronavirus pandemic. Many have said ballots...

The U.S. Supreme Court overruled a lower federal court’s ruling and said that absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s April 7 Spring Election must be postmarked by Election Day in order to be counted. The Court did not change the April 13 deadline as the final day for counting absentee ballots.

More than 6,000 mailed ballots in Florida went uncounted in November's midterm elections, according to a report by the Associated Press. Officials at the Florida Department of State informed a federal judge last week that 6,670 ballots that were mailed in ahead of the November 6 midterm election were left uncounted because they arrived after Election Day. Ballots mailed inside the U.S. must reach election offices by 7 p.m. on Election Day under current Florida law. It is not yet clear why the ballots did not make it to the election offices on time. According to The Associated Press, the...

When I see the high absentee ballot returns I realize that leftists have been trolling group homes, nursing homes, assisted care facilities, people in supportive living situations, institutions, prisons and hospitals looking for "incapacitated" people. You see an incapacitated person can have their caregiver vote FOR them and the caregiver is to vote in what the caregiver PERCEIVES TO BE THE INCAPACITATED VOTER'S BEST INTERESTS. So this gives social workers, a known leftist conclave enormous voting power. I watched this happen in CT in the late sixties, and it has been going on at a low to medium level since...

Florida results of yesterday's (Friday) 10/26/2018 combined "Mail-In, Absentee & Early voting activity. Republicans, 988,616 votes cast & recorded. Democrats, 915,674 votes cast & recorded. Others, 14,181 votes cast & recorded. Independents, 395,114 votes cast & recorded. The Trump, Republican vote lead has increased by 11,000 votes in one day, which brings the current Trump, Republican vote lead to 72,943 & rising. If this trend continues, Both Democrats, Mayor, Andrew Gillum, Senator, Bill Nelson & the entire Florida Democrat Ticket will be severely defeated on the coming Election Day, Tuesday, 11/06/2018. We should have this sorted out by next weekend...