If there is still a coronavirus pandemic in November, a fair election requires safe voting.
on March 27 that empowered the secretary of state to send absentee ballot applications to voters and to automatically count any new voter registration as an application for an absentee ballot, among other things.
The governor may extend the executive order to cover the state’s August primary elections and November general election, depending on the danger the pandemic presents at that time.King County Election workers collect ballots from a dropbox in the Washington state primary on March 10, 2020, in Seattle. Washington is a vote-by-mail state.
Prior to the March presidential primary elections, county election officials in Michigan had requested increased funds from the state legislature to properly handle the surge in absentee ballots. The Republicans who control the legislature refused to approve the funds, instead taking a wait-and-see approach to determine if they would be necessary. This delayed the vote count for the March 10 primary, with results not posted until the afternoon of March 11.
The proposal to allow anyone to collect and return absentee ballots is the item receiving the most attention among Bell’s proposals. In 2019, the legislature passed a bipartisan bill banning the collection of absentee ballots and requests for absentee ballots after the election of Republican congressman Mark Harris was overturned due to his campaign’s absentee ballot corruption. Harris’ political consultants were convicted of absentee ballot fraud to help him win the 2018 election. His election was decertified and a new election was called.
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