Category: absentee ballot

Arizona Court Strikes Down Challenge to Mail-In Voting

January 17, 2023
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An Arizona Appellate Court upheld a lower court’s decision to reject a lawsuit from the Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP) filed against election officials for alleging Arizona’s mail-in voting law violated the Arizona Constitution’s secrecy clause. The secrecy clause states “All elections by the people shall be by ballot, or by such other method as may…

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GOP-Backed Bill Would Overhaul Ohio Election Law

November 19, 2022
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Introduced last year, a proposed overhaul to Ohio election law has reappeared with changes that would prevent the Ohio secretary of state and local governments from mailing unsolicited absentee ballot applications and eliminate early voting on the Monday before Election Day among other guidelines. On Nov. 17, an Ohio House Government Oversight Committee approved revisions…

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Voter ID Ballot Measures Face Pressing Deadlines, Progressive Counter Initiatives, Lawsuits

March 18, 2022
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When the Arizona House on Feb. 28 passed a resolution to place a proposed statute expanding voter identification requirements on November’s ballot, it became the first election integrity measure to qualify for public referendum in 2022. Sponsors of similar citizen-initiated proposed voter ID statutes and constitutional amendments are collecting signatures in four states—Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska,…

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Indiana Absentee Ballot Application Bill Scaled Back by House Committee

April 10, 2021
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An absentee ballot application bill that would have made new identification requirements necessary was greatly scaled back by a House committee on Thursday. A central part of the proposed bill, known as SB 353, would require voters to show their driver’s license number on absentee ballot applications or write out the last four numbers of…

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Georgia Election Official Challenges Illegal Absentee Vote

December 23, 2020
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Gabriel Sterling, the voting systems manager for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, filed a challenge Tuesday against an absentee ballot that was sent to his home with the name of the person who sold the house to him 2 years ago. Sterling received a third-party election flyer at his home located in Sandy Spring, Georgia,…

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