Tracking and Reporting: The Future of Voting by Mail
Roughly half of Americans cast their ballots by mail in 2020. Of those that voted by mail, 81% said they would be likely to do so again. [...]
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OIG Releases Vote By Mail Primer
The U.S. Postal Service delivered more than 135 million ballots to or from voters in the 2020 general election. Vote by mail had been growing steadily in usage in the United [...]
Doubt In Mail Voting in Montana
From Real Clear Politics: The mountainous, 2,600-square-mile region of Missoula County, Montana with a population of approximately 119,600 does not seem like your [...]
What to Know About Vote-By-Mail Security
Voting by mail has been around for a long time. The ability to cast absentee ballots was originally implemented for the benefit of soldiers serving in the US Civil War. [...]
Tracking Your Election Mail: It May Not Be What You Expect
By David Davoust President Robis Elections First, the good news. You can use USPS tools to track all of your election mail including ballots. By utilizing the USPS Informed [...]
Before Next Election, Automate Your Absentee Ballot Process
Last year we experienced a colossal shift in voter behavior. Turnout was at a record high with a 160 million people casting ballots. According to Pew Research, 54% of voters [...]
VBM: Five Key Takeaways from the 2020 General Election
By Robert F. Witko President and CEO Fort Orange Press The 2020 general election cycle brought an unprecedented challenge to voting and an opportunity to learn and to prepare [...]
Virginia Late Ballots Missing Postmark Was Illegal, Court Rules
The Virginia Board of Elections rule allowing officials to count ballots that arrived without a postmark up to three days after the election was illegal, a state judge ruled [...]
USPS Vote-By-Mail Analysis: 136 Million Ballots Processed and Delivered
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Postal Service today released an updated 2020 Post-Election Analysis that outlined the steps the agency took to deliver a record 136 million [...]
USPS: Many Ballots Not Delivered Election Day
From the NY Post: Significant percentages of mail-in ballots in battleground states were not delivered to election offices Nov. 3, according to US Postal Service data filed [...]
Election Integrity & Voter Reg Validation
From the Official Mail Guide Fall 2020-Winter 2021 Edition: by Greg Brown, VP Global Marketing, Melissa As vote by mail scenarios play out in wildly varied ways across the [...]
Federal Judge Issues Injunction On USPS Changes
From the AP: A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction sought by 14 states that sued the Trump administration and the U.S. Postal Service … (click to [...]
25% PA ELECTION OFFICIALS QUIT OVER VBM
From NBC: Mail-in ballot law in Pennsylvania has driven out nearly a quarter of state’s top election officials. “The general assembly, the courts, and the governor [...]
NEW CA LAW CRIMINALIZES VOTE BY MAIL MISINFORMATION
A new California law criminalizes the spreading of misinformation about voting by mail. “The spread of misinformation and disinformation are enormous threats to our [...]
State Officials Say USPS Vote By Mail Flyer Inaccurate
State election officials are telling their citizens that the recent USPS vote by mail flyer contains inaccurate information … (click to read more) The USPS responded to [...]
Inspector General Identifies Election Mail Issues
The OIG has issued a report on Processing Readiness of Election and Political Mail During the 2020 General Elections (click to read). Among the Stakeholder-Related Election [...]
Confessions Of A Voter Fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots
From the New York Post: “A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he’s been doing it, on a [...]
PA Asks Court To Extend Mail-In Voting Deadlines
From the Associated Press: Citing a warning by the U.S. Postal Service about its delivery times, Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is asking the state Supreme Court to extend [...]
Kentucky Breaks Turnout Records With Mail Ballots
Kentucky’s Secretary of State is reporting that turnout in the June primary would exceed 1 million voters, breaking records because of the 800,000 ballots that were [...]
President Continues Attack On Mail Voting
On June 22, 2020 President Trump tweeted the following, the latest in a series of tweets that blast voting by mail: In response, National Public Radio published an article [...]