Archive for 2019

A federal judge has refused Tennessee’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit against a new law that threatens voter registration groups with civil and criminal penalties if there are problems with the applications they submit.

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu vetoed a bill that would have established no-excuse absentee voting, citing the Granite State’s “unique” traditions and supporting local officials who had argued it would create problems at the polls.

electionline.org’s Mindy Moretti has a very cool story in this week’s newsletter about an effort in Utah to use new technology to identify voters’ physical locations in areas where addresses don’t exist.

Earlier this week I wrote about the potential impacts of Hurricane Dorian on elections next Tuesday in North Carolina. Now, the state board of elections has launched a website intended to assist voters with early voting schedule changes and closures associated with the storm.

National Public Radio’s Pam Fessler, who’s back on the electiongeek beat after a year-long book sabbatical, has a great new piece that looks at states’ search for new voting equipment, with a focus on Pennsylvania.

North Carolina voters in two special Congressional elections scheduled for next Tuesday are being urged by state officials to cast early ballots ahead of a potential landfall from Hurricane Dorian.

Happy Labor Day to all, especially those who work so hard to make our elections system work – and keep it safe. The blog will be back tomorrow, Tuesday September 3. 

A new legal settlement in Ohio will give inactive voters the opportunity to cast provisional ballots and reactivate their registrations through 2022.

Colorado state election director Judd Choate will be leading a University of Minnesota elections program webinar at 1pm Central time TODAY on the benefits of membership in the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC).

The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling blocking the State of Indiana from using “Crosscheck” data to remove voters with registrations in another state from the rolls.