Articles for Elections Officials

Just 314 votes separate candidates in one of nation’s closest House races, with more ballots to go
1 month ago

Just 314 votes separate candidates in one of nation’s closest House races, with more ballots to go

LA Times  

The latest tally from Southern California elections officials show Democrat Derek Tran increasing his lead over Republican Rep. Michelle Steel in the 45th Congressional District race. “People who have been watching closely and feel like the race is on a knife’s edge are anxious to see this one get called,” said Paul Mitchell, whose firm Political Data Inc. tracks voting …

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Forget election night answers: Why it could take a while to get final results
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Forget election night answers: Why it could take a while to get final results

LA Times  

Rep. Adam B. Schiff, right, and wife Eve check in for their ballots at McCambridge Recreation Center in Burbank on Tuesday. On election night in California, county elections officials must begin reporting results to the secretary of state within two hours after the polls close and they begin tallying votes. In California, county elections officials may begin opening and processing …

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Rain, humidity have sealed some mail-in ballot return envelopes shut, elections officials say
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Rain, humidity have sealed some mail-in ballot return envelopes shut, elections officials say

The Independent  

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GOP Probes 2020 Election Irregularities, With Two Former Trump Officials on the Panel
2 months ago

GOP Probes 2020 Election Irregularities, With Two Former Trump Officials on the Panel

CNN  

House Republicans have hired two former Donald Trump campaign officials involved in the 2020 fake elector scheme to serve on their election law committee. The committee, which has broad jurisdiction over national elections, is expected to play a significant role in the post-election landscape when Congress returns in November. The hiring of these individuals indicates that the GOP is prepared …

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Colorado election officials denounce ‘sham lawsuit’ targeting voter rolls
3 months, 1 week ago

Colorado election officials denounce ‘sham lawsuit’ targeting voter rolls

Raw Story  

Colorado is the latest state to have its election system targeted by a lawsuit from a fringe conservative group repeating debunked claims of widespread fraud. Two Colorado voters and the Missouri-based nonprofit United Sovereign Americans filed suit against Colorado state officials and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in the U.S. District Court of Colorado on Tuesday, alleging that its analysis …

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CO official explains why election deniers' canvassing effort raised alarm bells
5 months ago

CO official explains why election deniers' canvassing effort raised alarm bells

Raw Story  

Colorado’s status as a hotbed of the election denial movement is in the spotlight of a civil rights trial in federal court this week. USEIP canvassers, the lawsuit alleges, often targeted “high-density housing, communities experiencing growth among racial minority voters, and communities in which a high percentage of voters supported Democratic candidates in the 2020 election.” Epp, echoing the prior …

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If a presidential nominee drops out, what happens to states’ ballots?
5 months, 1 week ago

If a presidential nominee drops out, what happens to states’ ballots?

Raw Story  

This special report was written with contributions from States Newsroom’s 39 state news outlets. In Louisiana, for example, Deputy Secretary of State for Communications Joel Watson Jr., said the “nominees for president and vice president are not the candidates who are elected on November 5th, the people running for presidential elector are.” Iowa Secretary of State spokesperson Ashley Hunt noted …

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Wisconsin criminal justice groups argue for invalidating constitutional amendments on bail
7 months ago

Wisconsin criminal justice groups argue for invalidating constitutional amendments on bail

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin criminal justice advocates argued in court Wednesday that Republican-backed cash bail constitutional amendments approved by voters last year should be invalidated over procedural flaws, a case that elections officials and the Legislature call a cynical attempt to undo election results. People can vote on them again.” Attorneys for the Legislature and state elections commission countered that …

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LS polls: 188 security personnel airlifted to snow-bound pockets in J-K's Kishtwar
8 months, 1 week ago

LS polls: 188 security personnel airlifted to snow-bound pockets in J-K's Kishtwar

New Indian Express  

JAMMU: A total of 188 security personnel were airlifted by three IAF helicopters to snow-bound Marwah and Warwan areas in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district which is part of the Udhampur parliamentary seat, officials said. The officials said the airlifting of 144 Central Armed Police Force and 44 Jammu and Kashmir Police officers for deployment at 31 polling booths in …

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Arizona expects to be back at the center of election attacks. Its top officials are going on offense
9 months ago

Arizona expects to be back at the center of election attacks. Its top officials are going on offense

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — The room sits behind a chain-link fence, then black iron gates. “What would be even more of a shame is if we couldn’t look the workers in the eye and say, ‘We’re doing everything possible to make sure that you’re safe,’” he said. Arizona’s top election officials are taking an aggressive approach to combating disinformation and responding to …

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AI technology sparks new worries, but poses familiar challenges to elections
10 months, 2 weeks ago

AI technology sparks new worries, but poses familiar challenges to elections

Raw Story  

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Ultimately, what the day proved to me was that the problems AI may cause aren’t really that new, and that with appropriate collaboration between interested parties — in this case, election officials and AI leaders — the public can build up defenses …

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How to vote in California’s March 2024 primary election
10 months, 3 weeks ago

How to vote in California’s March 2024 primary election

LA Times  

California’s primary election will take place on March 5, Super Tuesday, along with more than a dozen other states. Eligible Californians who miss the deadline can still cast a ballot by completing a conditional voter registration application at their county elections office, vote center or polling place. No-party-preference voters who want to cast ballots for presidential candidates in the Democratic, …

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Felons must get gun rights back if they want voting rights restored, Tennessee officials say
11 months ago

Felons must get gun rights back if they want voting rights restored, Tennessee officials say

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The state’s toughened voting rights restoration policy requires people convicted of a felony to get their gun rights restored before they can become eligible to cast a ballot again, Tennessee’s elections office said Tuesday, confirming a mandate that officials had been debating internally. Last summer, election officials interpreted a state Supreme Court ruling as requiring that all …

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Elections head in Nevada’s lone swing county resigns, underscoring election turnover in key state
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Elections head in Nevada’s lone swing county resigns, underscoring election turnover in key state

Associated Press  

RENO, Nev. — The rapid turnover among election officials in Nevada continued on Tuesday, when the top election official in the state’s lone swing county abruptly announced her resignation less than a month before early voting commences for the Feb. 6 presidential preference primary. Washoe County Registrar of Voters Jamie Rodriguez said in her resignation letter that she wanted to …

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Andhra Pradesh govt takes over half of Nagarjunasagar Dam while Telangana was busy in elections: Details
1 year ago

Andhra Pradesh govt takes over half of Nagarjunasagar Dam while Telangana was busy in elections: Details

Op India  

In a late-night operation, the Andhra Pradesh government reportedly took over half of the Nagarjunasagar Dam on the Krishna river, and released water to its side. Upon learning of the move, when some Telangana officials arrived with local cops, they were told that the Andhra police personnel and the irrigation officials were there on orders of the Jagan Mohan Reddy …

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Mike Lindell's vote fraud gizmo could send 'enraged partisans' marching on election offices: report
1 year, 2 months ago

Mike Lindell's vote fraud gizmo could send 'enraged partisans' marching on election offices: report

Raw Story  

Mike Lindell claims to have a new tool for uncovering election fraud – but it seems just as likely to provoke violent threats as discover evidence of a crime. "I told Lindell that his WMD alerts would be going off everywhere because many states use online connections for e-pollbooks — which are often i-Pads – to make sure only registered …

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Inside Mike Lindell's scheme to build an election fraud detector straight out of sci-fi
1 year, 2 months ago

Inside Mike Lindell's scheme to build an election fraud detector straight out of sci-fi

Raw Story  

At his 2023 “Election Summit,” Mike Lindell, the exuberant pillow peddler turned election truther, was more manic than usual. Instead of wanting to look into things, they say, ‘Well, it’s not on the internet!’” Lindell proceeded to unveil a series of electronic tools that he said would push the country to adopt a voting system that more closely resembled something …

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Pennsylvanians scurry to fix mail-in ballots after ruling
2 years, 1 month ago

Pennsylvanians scurry to fix mail-in ballots after ruling

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Some of Pennsylvania’s largest counties scrambled Monday to help voters fix mail-in ballots that have fatal flaws such as incorrect dates or missing signatures on the envelopes used to send them in, bringing about confusion and legal challenges in the battleground state on the eve of the election. They sued county boards of election across the state, …

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Some Officials Fear Sabotage From Republican Election Workers
2 years, 2 months ago

Some Officials Fear Sabotage From Republican Election Workers

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING After Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential race, he and his allies flooded the zone with vicious lies about a stolen election. Benson said that while courts would ultimately step in in such an instance, “it will enable election deniers to claim the unwillingness to certify demonstrates the illegitimacy of the election and thereby undermine the ability …

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Stop thinking just about Election Day. We're in voting season now
2 years, 3 months ago

Stop thinking just about Election Day. We're in voting season now

NPR  

Stop thinking just about Election Day. We're in voting season now Enlarge this image toggle caption Jim Mone/AP Jim Mone/AP Election Day may still be weeks away, but voting for this year's midterm elections has already begun. North Carolina officially kicked off this voting season on Sept. 9, when — almost two months before Election Day — its county boards …

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Voter challenges, records requests swamp election offices
2 years, 3 months ago

Voter challenges, records requests swamp election offices

Associated Press  

Spurred by conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, activists around the country are using laws that allow people to challenge a voter’s right to cast a ballot to contest the registrations of thousands of voters at a time. “They at best overburden election officials in the run-up to an election, and at worse they lead to people being removed …

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Peltola beats Palin, wins Alaska House special election
2 years, 3 months ago

Peltola beats Palin, wins Alaska House special election

Associated Press  

JUNEAU, Alaska — Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat on Wednesday, besting a field that included Republican Sarah Palin, who was seeking a political comeback in the state where she was once governor. “My desire is to follow in Congressman Young’s legacy of representing all Alaskans, and I’m just looking forward to getting …

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Election officials can’t access federal funding for security as violent threats mount
2 years, 4 months ago

Election officials can’t access federal funding for security as violent threats mount

Raw Story  

Federal authorities are prosecuting a man who pled guilty to threatening a Colorado election official on Instagram, where he wrote: “Do you feel safe? You shouldn’t.” And Colorado police arrested a man accused of calling Secretary of State Jena Griswold and saying that “the angel of death is coming for her.” So when the Colorado secretary of state’s office learned …

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Report: Need tighter security for Wisconsin election workers
2 years, 4 months ago

Report: Need tighter security for Wisconsin election workers

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — The security of election workers and equipment in battleground Wisconsin’s second-largest county isn’t adequate in light of the threats that officials and workers are facing in a climate of lies and misinformation about supposed fraud, according to a committee report released Monday. Local clerks don’t have the resources they need to adequately protect workers and to securely …

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