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29 Oct 2020, 10:38 am by Zahavah Levine, Thea Raymond-Sidel
Every state has a process for verifying the identity of the voter who casts an absentee ballot. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 7:50 am by James Romoser
The court declined to weigh in before the election on a Republican effort to eliminate a three-day extension of the absentee-ballot deadline in Pennsylvania, and the court also turned down a Republican effort to block a six-day extension of the absentee-ballot deadline in North Carolina. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 4:27 am by SHG
“The text of the Constitution requires federal courts to ensure that state courts do not rewrite state election laws,” he wrote in a footnote to a decision in which the court refused, 5-3, to extend Wisconsin’s deadline for receiving absentee ballots to six days after the election. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 7:03 pm by Howard Bashman
“Supreme Court Allows Longer Deadlines for Absentee Ballots in Pennsylvania and North Carolina; Republicans in both states opposed the extensions; Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who joined the court on Tuesday, did not participate in either case, saying she had not had time to fully review the briefs”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 6:04 pm by Amy Howe
In a three-and-a-half-page dissent, Gorsuch stressed that the state’s legislature had already taken action to respond to COVID-19, including by reducing the number of witnesses required for absentee ballots and by allowing voters to request absentee ballots online. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 11:58 am by Anna Salvatore
Europe is experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases, reports the Times. [read post]
Challenges to Limits on Absentee Ballot Drop-Off Locations The second category of cases relating to return of mail ballots involves challenges to state limitations on where voters may drop off ballots. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 9:16 am by Connor Clerkin, Lane Corrigan
The injunction extended the deadline for the receipt of absentee ballots until Nov. 9, provided the ballots were postmarked by Election Day, Nov. 3. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 2:51 pm by Squire Patton Boggs
Both absentee voting and early in-person voting had begun and election officials had already received absentee ballots from first-time voters who would have been unable to vote if the restrictions were enforced. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 1:47 pm by Katie Barlow
Disputes over absentee-ballot deadlines in Pennsylvania and North Carolina are currently pending before the justices. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 7:54 am by Aviel Menter
Takushi, cases in which candidates for elected positions challenged state laws that prevented them from appearing on the ballot. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 7:54 am by Aviel Menter
Takushi, cases in which candidates for elected positions challenged state laws that prevented them from appearing on the ballot. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 7:39 am by Zahavah Levine
It explores challenges to the processes by which voters apply for and receive absentee ballots, such as cases that seek to require the state to send mail ballot applications or mail ballots to all voters. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 7:26 am by James Romoser
The most significant part of the ruling was to reject a six-day extension for absentee ballots in the state to be received after Election Day in order to be counted. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 8:28 pm by Amy Howe
” Roberts said that this case was different from the Pennsylvania case — in which the justices last week let stand a lower-court order requiring election officials to count absentee ballots received within three days after Election Day — because those requests involved the power of state courts to apply their own constitution to election regulations. [read post]
24 Oct 2020, 6:10 pm by Matt Cooper
Secretary of State, the Maine Supreme Court issued an opinion refusing to extend the absentee ballot receipt deadline, affirming a superior court decision. [read post]
24 Oct 2020, 2:01 pm by Amy Howe
The dispute now back before the Supreme Court began when the Pennsylvania Democratic Party filed a lawsuit that challenged parts of the state’s absentee-ballot system in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. [read post]
In this particular case, Boockvar asked the court to give an opinion regarding whether the election code either authorizes or requires county election boards to reject absentee or mail-in ballots based on signature comparisons. [read post]