Tag Archives: voting by mail

Trump Campaign Sues NJ To Block Voting By Mail

The Hill reports: The Trump campaign on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against New Jersey after Gov. Phil Murphy (D) after he announced that every voter in the state would receive a mail-in ballot, in addition to being allowed to vote in-person, as a safety precaution during the coronavirus pandemic. The lawsuit, obtained by Reuters, was filed in the U.S. District …

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Trump Submits Mail-In Ballot For Florida Primary

The Palm Beast Post reports: The vote-by-mail ballots requested by President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were received by the Palm Beach County elections office on Monday. The ballots were dropped off in person, not sent back to Palm Beach County by mail, elections chief Wendy Sartory Link said. The ballots would be counted Tuesday, Link said. The …

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Trump Floats Election Do-Over Due To Mail-In Voting

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that the 2020 presidential election may have to be done again if universal mail-in voting is introduced. During his announcement of a posthumous presidential pardon for pioneering women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony — who died in 1906 — Trump was asked about his feud with the Democratic Party over mail-in voting. …

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UPS And FedEx: No, We Can’t Deliver Mail-In Ballots

Reuters reports: United Parcel Service and FedEx on Friday shot down social media calls that they step in to deliver mail-in ballots from the U.S. Postal Service, which is warning states of potentially “significant” delays. “State ballots must be postmarked to be considered valid and only the USPS has lawful postmarking status. Therefore UPS, FedEx and other private parties cannot …

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Romney Hits Critics Of Mail Voting, But Ignores Trump

The Associated Press reports: Sen. Mitt Romney said Friday that politicians attacking the vote by mail system are threatening global democracy but stopped short of criticizing President Donald Trump, who has been openly against an expected surge of mail-in ballots. The United States must stand as an example to more fragile democratic nations to show that elections can be held …

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NJ Gov: All Registered Voters Will Get Mail-In Ballots

The Washington Post reports: New Jersey will conduct its general election mostly by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic, sending ballots to active registered voters while also providing the option to vote in person, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced Friday. The state piloted a hybrid voting model during its July 7 primary, Murphy said during an interview with CNN and …

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PA Judge To Trump: Show Me Proof Of Voter Fraud

CNN reports: A federal judge in Pennsylvania told the Trump campaign and the Republican Party that they must produce evidence they have of vote-by-mail fraud in the state by Friday. The judge’s order, in a high-profile case about vote-by-mail in the battleground state, essentially forces the Trump campaign to try to back up President Donald Trump’s false claims about massive …

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Trump Requests Mail-In Ballot For Florida Primary

USA Today reports: For the second time as a Palm Beach County voter, President Donald Trump has requested a vote-by-mail ballot ahead of Florida’s primary election on Tuesday. And the president who has just spent the past few weeks excoriating mail-in voting has less than a week to cast it. The request for himself and first lady Melania Trump came …

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Trump Sues Iowa Blue Counties Over Absentee Ballots

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has sued two Democratic-leaning Iowa counties that are making it easy to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to invalidate tens of thousands of voters’ absentee ballot applications. The Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and other GOP groups filed the lawsuits Wednesday against elections officials in Linn and …

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SCOTUS Rejects GOP Attack On RI Voting By Mail

Reuters reports: The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday left in place a lower-court ruling that relaxes voting restrictions in Rhode Island during the coronavirus pandemic. The justices rejected an emergency request made by the Republican National Committee and the state’s Republican Party. The decision means that mail-in ballots will not, as usual, have to be accompanied by the signatures of …

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Trump Admits He Plans To Sabotage Stimulus Funding For USPS In Order To Thwart Voting By Mail [VIDEO]

Axios reports: President Trump on Thursday told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo that Democratic demands to fund mail-in voting and the U.S. Postal Service in ongoing coronavirus stimulus negotiations were a non-starter. Why it matters: Trump directly linked Democrats’ desired $3.6 billion for mail-in voting and $25 billion for the USPS to his continued baseless claims that increased mail-in voting will …

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Ohio GOP Sec. Of State Bans County Election Officials From Offering More Than One Drop Box For Ballots

Cleveland.com reports: Secretary of State Frank LaRose said Wednesday he is banning county boards of elections from offering more than one drop box for completed absentee ballots this November, saying it’s grown too late to make changes to how Ohio will administer this year’s presidential election. LaRose, a Republican, more than three weeks ago formally asked Ohio Attorney General Dave …

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Republicans Sue IL Gov To Stop Mail Voting Expansion

Courthouse News reports: A group of Illinois Republicans sued the state’s Democratic governor and others in federal court Monday over a law they claim is designed to expand voting by mail to dilute Republican votes and tilt elections in favor of Democrats, while also risking a spike in voter fraud. The Cook County Republican Party targeted Governor J.B. Pritzker in …

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Analysis: 75% Of Americans Eligible To Vote By Mail

The New York Times reports: About three-quarters of all American voters will be eligible to receive a ballot in the mail for the 2020 election — the most in U.S. history, according to a New York Times analysis. If recent election trends hold and turnout increases, as experts predict, roughly 80 million mail ballots will flood election offices this fall, …

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Michelle Obama: Vote Early Or Vote By Mail [VIDEO]

NBC News reports: Former first lady Michelle Obama urged Americans to vote by mail or vote early ahead of the approaching November elections amid the coronavirus pandemic. Obama called on Americans to make sure they and those around them are registered to vote and are educated on their options for early voting or voting by mail. Her message was part …

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Postmaster Admits To Dems That He’s Slowed Mail

The Washington Post reports: The head of the U.S. Postal Service acknowledged in a meeting with top Democrats that he instituted new policies restricting overtime and extra mail processing trips, moves that the agency previously downplayed and that postal workers say have caused mail backlogs, according to a letter released Thursday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Senate Minority …

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Trump Babbles On Mail Voting: You’ll Never Know Who The Winner Is But The Winner’s Gonna Be Me [VIDEO]

“You’re never gonna know who won the election, you can’t have that. And Nevada is a big state. It’s an important state. It’s a very political state. And the governor happens to be a Democrat. “And I don’t believe the post office can be set up. They were given no notice. You’re talking about millions of votes. It’s a catastrophe …

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Trump: Mail Voting Will Drag Out Election “For Years”

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump continued his attack on mail-in voting on Wednesday by claiming it would make the 2020 election “go on for years” due to delays. There is no evidence of widespread corruption in mail-in voting that would delay the November results for “years,” and critics have accused the president of assailing such voting in order to undermine …

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Trump Sues To Stop Voting By Mail In Nevada

NBC News reports: The re-election campaign of President Donald Trump on Tuesday night followed through on his threats to sue Nevada over its plan to conduct the November election almost entirely by mail-in ballot. The suit, which claims such statewide voting by mail is unconstitutional, comes one day after Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed a bill that would facilitate mail-in …

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Trump: I Endorsed Voting By Mail In Florida Because The State Has A “Great Republican Governor” [VIDEO]

“Florida’s got a great Republican governor. And it had a great Republican governor. Two great governors. And over a long period of time they’ve been able to get the absentee ballots done extremely professionally. “They’re so well run. Florida’s a very well run state. Low taxes, low everything. They’ve done a great job. Really a great job. “And the two …

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