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How To Check If Your Vote Was Counted
1 month, 2 weeks ago

How To Check If Your Vote Was Counted

Huff Post  

Tetra Images via Getty Images Most Americans have options for checking their mail-in ballot status in elections. Florida Georgia Both absentee and provisional ballots can be tracked at the state’s “My Voter Page.” Hawaii Residents can head to ballotstatus.hawaii.gov to see if their mail-in vote was received. Illinois Although some counties use mail-in ballot tracking software, Illinois offers statewide tracking …

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Worried about your mail-in ballot? These states let you track it online
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Worried about your mail-in ballot? These states let you track it online

NPR  

Worried about your mail-in ballot? These states let you track it online toggle caption George Frey/AFP via Getty Images For any voter who wants to be sure their ballot is counted, nearly every state has some form of online ballot tracking. Here's a guide to where things stand: Online ballot tracking for mailed-in or absentee ballots is available in every …

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Get ahead of election day with these 8 voting tips
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Get ahead of election day with these 8 voting tips

LA Times  

Election day is less than a week away, and the clock is ticking for voters across the country. Whether you’re a first-time voter, haven’t cast a ballot in years or need a refresher, here is a guide to help you vote in the Nov. 5 election. This means your ballot will be processed and counted when the county election office …

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Worried about your 2024 ballot being counted? These states let you track it online
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Worried about your 2024 ballot being counted? These states let you track it online

NPR  

Worried about your 2024 ballot being counted? “There are lots of layers of protection and there is a way for each person's vote — and only one vote — to be counted.” Still, Danetz says, attempts to destroy ballots in drop boxes and mailboxes are “certainly concerning and a crime attacking our democracy.” For any voter who wants to be …

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This 1 Tiny Error Could Invalidate Your Entire Mail-In Ballot
2 months ago

This 1 Tiny Error Could Invalidate Your Entire Mail-In Ballot

Huff Post  

Illustration: HuffPost; Photo: Getty Images Mismatched signatures were the most common reason a mail-in ballot got rejected in the 2020 general election. “We want it to be a smaller percentage of ballots.” Here’s Why Your Mail-In Ballot Signature Might Get Flagged For Review Each state and county jurisdiction may have a different way to verify your identify via signature, which …

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State Officials 'Nervous' About USPS Delays And The Election
2 months ago

State Officials 'Nervous' About USPS Delays And The Election

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Election worker Julie Fox prepares absentee ballots to go out at the Reo Elections Office on Oct. 3 in Lansing, Michigan. “The Postal Service has been working in close coordination throughout the year with election officials across the country.” To be clear, the Postal Service has a good record delivering almost all election mail on time: During the 2020 general …

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Can someone find out who you voted for? No. Here is what you should know
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Can someone find out who you voted for? No. Here is what you should know

NPR  

Can someone find out who you voted for? Election officials, voter registration organizations and election law experts — including New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver — have been fielding these questions from Americans. Sponsor Message Tappan Vickery, senior director of programming and strategy for HeadCount, a voter registration organization, said they also receive questions on ballot privacy. Vickery …

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Voting explainer: In many states, there's a process to fix an error with your ballot
2 years, 2 months ago

Voting explainer: In many states, there's a process to fix an error with your ballot

NPR  

Voting explainer: In many states, there's a process to fix an error with your ballot Enlarge this image toggle caption Lynne Sladky/AP Lynne Sladky/AP Many Americans are unfamiliar with how elections are run. Tova Wang, a democracy fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, says the roughly 20 states without a cure process leave their voters without much recourse if there …

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When will you know if Biden or Trump wins? Look to these battleground states
4 years, 1 month ago

When will you know if Biden or Trump wins? Look to these battleground states

LA Times  

An election worker loads ballots into a scanning machine at the Miami-Dade County Board of Elections on Monday in Doral, Fla. A record number of Americans — more than 59 million — had returned absentee ballots for the general election as of Sunday, after states expanded mail voting in an attempt to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. After thousands …

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‘Ripe for error’: Ballot signature verification is flawed — and a big factor in the election
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Ripe for error’: Ballot signature verification is flawed — and a big factor in the election

LA Times  

Mail-in ballots are pouring in by the millions to election offices across the country, getting stacked and prepared for processing. Election workers eyeball voter signatures on ballots one by one, comparing the loop of an “L” or the squiggle of an “S” against other samples of that person’s writing. Here’s how signature verification works in many states: An election employee …

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Opinion: How to vote and to make sure everyone else does too
4 years, 2 months ago

Opinion: How to vote and to make sure everyone else does too

CNN  

Editor’s Note: David Nickerson is a professor of political science at Temple University and served as director of experiments for the analytics department of the 2012 Obama reelection campaign. David Nickerson Courtesy David Nickerson Todd Rogers Courtesy of Todd Rogers Similar to how drug trials work, voter mobilization experiments randomly assign participants to either a treatment group that receives a …

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Jessica Biel leads stars urging fans to vote in the presidential election
4 years, 2 months ago

Jessica Biel leads stars urging fans to vote in the presidential election

Daily Mail  

Jessica Biel led the celebs taking to Instagram this Friday and urging their fans to vote in the upcoming presidential election. Making her voice heard: Recently Nina Dobrev also took to her Insta Stories and encouraged Americans to exercise their franchise in November The look: She could be seen modeling a T-shirt that read simply: 'Vote,' and in case the …

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California voting guide
4 years, 2 months ago

California voting guide

LA Times  

Everyone eligible to vote can vote by mail in the 2020 general election, and if you registered by Oct. 19, you don’t even need to apply for a vote-by-mail ballot. L.A. County ballot drop box Once you’ve filled out your ballot, you should seal it inside the prepaid postage envelope provided with your ballot, sign your name and write the …

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When will we know if Biden or Trump won? It could depend on absentee ballot rules in these states
4 years, 3 months ago

When will we know if Biden or Trump won? It could depend on absentee ballot rules in these states

LA Times  

Absentee ballots are prepared for mailing Sept. 3 at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, N.C. In June, 78% of voters cast absentee ballots before election day either by mail or in person. On Aug. 4, a county judge ruled the state should allow ballots postmarked by election day to be counted if they’re received by Nov. 10. …

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How To Vote By Mail: A Guide To Send In Your Ballot : Life Kit : NPR
4 years, 4 months ago

How To Vote By Mail: A Guide To Send In Your Ballot : Life Kit : NPR

NPR  

The Most Important Mail You'll Ever Send: A Ballot Enlarge this image Martín Elfman for NPR Martín Elfman for NPR The 2020 election is going to be different than any election in American history. States are relaxing restrictions on who's eligible to do it, and in some states, they're spending money on sending ballot request forms or even ballots to …

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