Tag: ballots
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Viral video of ripped-up Pennsylvania ballots is fake and Russian-made, intelligence agencies say
Russian actors “manufactured and amplified” a recent viral video that falsely showed a person tearing up ballots in Pennsylvania, the FBI and two other federal agencies said Friday. The FBI and officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the U.S. intelligence community made the…
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Mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day in Mississippi shouldn’t be counted, appeals court says
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted if they are postmarked before election day — but received up to five days after Election Day — is preempted by federal law. The ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals does not have any immediate impact…
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Some voters joke they want to ‘cancel out’ family members’ ballots in new TikTok trend
With Election Day around the corner, some households are finding that the best way to cope with political differences is humor. On TikTok, dozens of users are posting tongue-in-cheek videos about how their vote will “cancel out” someone else’s on the opposite end of the political spectrum — including their parents, friends and partners. The…
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Colorado election officials say they intercepted at least a dozen fraudulent ballots
At least a dozen mail ballots were stolen, fraudulently filled out and submitted in Colorado for the Nov. 5 election, the Colorado secretary of state’s office said Thursday. Officials said the issue was identified via the signature verification process, which checks the signatures on ballots against those the state has on file for voters. Authorities…
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Ballots damaged in USPS mailbox fire in Phoenix
A blue U.S. Postal Service mailbox in Phoenix, Arizona, was set on fire at approximately 1:20 a.m. local time Thursday morning, damaging approximately 20 ballots and other pieces of mail, according to the Phoenix Fire Department. The mailbox was a drive-up collection box for mail at the Post Office at 3905 North 7th Avenue, according…
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As North Carolina begins voting, hurricane devastation complicates casting ballots
The Postal Service has been providing election officials with a daily update of the roads that are blocked and can’t allow deliveries. The officials are then matching up the information to their list of people who’ve requested absentee ballots and contacting them to determine how best to get ballots to them. “We’re doing everything we…
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Georgia judge blocks rule requiring counties to hand-count Election Day ballots
A Georgia judge on Tuesday blocked a new rule from the state’s election board that would have required counties to count ballots cast on Election Day by hand, a provision critics had said would cause delays in reporting results in the battleground state. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his decision that…
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Half of voters plan to cast their ballots early — with a stark partisan divide
Americans are more eager to vote early than they were before the pandemic, but a deep partisan divide on early voting remains, the latest national NBC News poll shows. With not even a month to go before Election Day, 5% of registered voters said they had already cast their ballots (3% by mail and 2%…
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New wave of GOP lawsuits target overseas ballots in key swing states
Republicans have filed lawsuits over the past week in three pivotal battleground states seeking to challenge the legitimacy of some ballots cast by U.S. citizens living abroad, including military members, arguing that some votes are particularly prone to fraud. Election officials in those states — Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania — and nonpartisan voting experts…
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Democrats sue Georgia election board over new rule requiring hand-counting of ballots
Democrats want a judge to block the Georgia State Election Board’s newly passed requirement for counties to hand-count ballots cast on Election Day, arguing the 11th-hour move is unlawful and could cause “chaos” in the battleground state. The board’s controversial 3-2 vote earlier this month “changes the rules of the game in the ninth inning,”…