Showing posts with label mail-in ballots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mail-in ballots. Show all posts

Saturday, July 18, 2020

So, Trump was right?

Jesse McKinley and Luis Ferré-Sadurní report in the New York Times,
More than three weeks after the New York primaries, election officials have not yet counted an untold number of mail-in absentee ballots, leaving numerous closely watched races unresolved, including two key Democratic congressional contests.

The absentee ballot count — greatly inflated this year after the state expanded the vote-by-mail option because of the coronavirus pandemic — has been painstakingly slow, and hard to track, with no running account of the vote totals available.

In some cases, the tiny number of ballots counted has bordered on the absurd: In the 12th Congressional District, where Representative Carolyn B. Maloney is fighting for her political life against her challenger, Suraj Patel, only 800 of some 65,000 absentee ballots had been tabulated as of Wednesday, according to Mr. Patel, though thousands had been disqualified.
Read more here.

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Unmasking the extremely biased Twitter rules-maker

In Neon Nettle, Jay Greenberg brings us information about the extremely biased person at Twitter who is responsible for "developing and enforcing Twitter's rules." He also goes on to discuss the dangers of mail-in ballots here.

Sunday, April 26, 2020

The problems with mail-in ballots

In Real Clear Politics, Mark Hemingway explains the issues with mail-in voting. More than 28 million ballots went missing in the last four elections. Read more here.