For the next several weeks, I will be presenting data relevant to the 2020 election, with a focus on absentee ballot requests, accepted absentee and early returns, and voter ... Keep Reading
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Elections board executive director eliminates signature matching for absentee ballots
I wrote last week about how NC State Board of Elections (SBE) Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell had ordered county election officials to accept absentee ballots that they know ... Keep Reading
How to vote absentee-by-mail while protecting your vote from fraud
While the danger of absentee ballot fraud is real, you can protect your vote Be careful of absentee ballot request forms sent from political organizations Avoid having people ... Keep Reading
Group’s actions will cause more rejected absentee-by-mail ballots this year
We are aware of how groups on both sides of the political spectrum are pushing absentee-by-mail voting. One likely result of those efforts will be an increase in rejected absentee ... Keep Reading
Note to the Daily Beast: more mail votes ≠ more votes
The Daily Beast's Eleanor Clift came out with a piece today on absentee ballot requests in North Carolina. While most of the piece is ensconced behind a paywall, you can get the ... Keep Reading
NC voters will use mail ballots much less than NC elections board predicts, but will vary by county
This article was made possible by research by Carlos Massana and Katie Wooten. The NC State Board of Elections is assuming that mail voting will account for 30-40% of all ... Keep Reading
State elections board is planning for the wrong election and potentially endangering voters
The State Board of Elections is preparing for 30% to 40% rate of mail-in voting this fall. The available data indicates that the actual figure will be much lower. Significant ... Keep Reading
Election bill passes House but still has major problems
I wrote on May 27 that there were three major problems with H1169, the Bipartisan Elections Act of 2020: Reducing the witness requirement for absentee ballots from 2 to 1 ... Keep Reading
