Connecticut Insider – Committee haggling over the definition of “illness” in a 90-year-old section of the state Constitution, led to partisan votes Wednesday that will send two separate-but-similar voting-right bills to the House and Senate.
KDKA TV – The state Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral argument from lawyers on whether the state’s no-excuse mail-in ballot system is constitutional.
Anchorage Daily News – Anchorage voters can now sign up to receive automatic tracking alerts for their ballots in the city’s vote-by-mail system.
USA Today – American elections are the latest industry to feel the squeeze of inflation and global supply chain disruptions.
NBC Connecticut – In 2020 for the first time, Connecticut voters were able to use COVID-19 as an excuse to vote by absentee ballot, but that provision has expired.
Politico – Supply chain snags are making it harder for election officials to secure the raw materials they need to put on this year’s primaries: paper and envelopes. Read More
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CT News Junkie – The legislative committee with oversight of election policy raised a resolution to amend the state constitution Friday, taking another swing at courting Republican votes to expand absentee ballot voting.
The Detroit News – Two organizations that represent hundreds of Michigan clerks called on state lawmakers Monday “to set aside their agendas” and make bipartisan improvements to voting policies ahead of the November statewide election.
Since the reports of Russian interference in the 2016 United States General Election, the security of voting processes has received increased attention from both state and federal authorities. The declaration by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in January 2017 that election systems be classified as the seventeenth component of critical infrastructure is just the beginning of a need for more secure voting processes. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 U.S. General Election has placed greater emphasis specifically on mail-based voting processes for electoral systems. The objective of this research is to provide greater insight into potential threats to mail-based voting processes.
A recent study of mail-ballot use and voter participation found that turnout increased an average of 5.6% during the 2020 presidential election in states that mailed a ballot to every registered voter. The effects of mail-ballot delivery were even greater in jurisdictions with historically low mail-ballot usage, boosting turnout by as much as 8%.
