Provisional ballots, sometimes referred to as "challenge ballots" or "affidavit ballots," are used when someone's eligibility to vote is unclear.
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There are 3,193 provision ballots and 5,048 outstanding absentee ballots.
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" The electronic ballots markers are required to "produce paper ballots.
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In Arizona, election officials emphasized the need to count mail-in ballots, early ballots dropped off on Election Day and provisional ballots.
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But 232,435 provisional ballots and 5,048 absentee ballots are still outstanding.
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Regardless of how the ballots are distributed to voters, all absentee or vote-by-mail ballots take longer to process than ballots cast in person.
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BIPA imposes new restrictions on who can collect ballots and how many ballots can be collected, reducing what used to be 80 ballots to only six.
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Absentee ballots are rejected at a higher rate than ballots cast in person.
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Most of the time, these ballots are kept separate from the other ballots.
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Two studies comparing traditional ballots with ballots written as clearly as possible found that voters participating in a simulation made fewer mistakes using the clearly written ballots.
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That allows for more nuanced ballots, but it also makes for more complicated ballots.
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"There could be a recount of the absentee ballots, provisional ballots, and some paper ballots in Westmoreland County, but Rick Saccone shouldn't bet on it," Mr. Makhija said.
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They included violations of state law, accidentally mixing in more than a dozen rejected ballots with more than 200 valid ballots, and wrongly opening mail-in ballots in private without verification from the local canvassing board that the ballots were properly cast.
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Broward County election officials are still working to tally early voting ballots and vote-by-mail ballots, while officials in Palm Beach are tallying up vote-by-mail ballots.
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In Bladen, about 40% of the requested absentee ballots, or 495 ballots, were not returned.
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Dr. Snipes said the un-recounted ballots were probably misfiled with another stack of ballots.
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Election officials said they are counting another 39,000 ballots, which could uncover more unusable ballots.
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Democrats have returned 1,508 ballots, or 41%; Republicans 1,227 ballots, or 34%; and Independents 909 ballots, or 29%, as of Wednesday, according to the North Carolina state Board of Elections.
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One woman who helped collect ballots, Ginger Eason, told a local news station that she was paid to collect the ballots and didn't actually return those ballots to the state.
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Mailed ballots and easily obtainable absentee ballots allow participation by those who find travel a hardship.
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Provisional ballots are filled out the same way as regular ballots, and are kept separate from regular ballots until it's determined that the voter is actually eligible to vote or not.
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Inman urged voters who arrived at the polls and find candidates missing from their ballots to take the ballots to election officials for correction rather than casting a vote on those ballots.
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That number is of 357,596 absentee ballots sent out, meaning about 83% of absentee ballots are in.
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He rejected requests for bilingual ballots, or separate Spanish ballots that would have required major software changes.
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All we need are paper ballots, pens, card tables and patriotic citizens to count ballots by hand.
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There are still about 203 absentee ballots and then additional provisional and military ballots left to be counted, but Saccone would have to capture an overwhelming majority of those outstanding ballots to win.
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Dowless held the ballots at his home or office — including blank or incomplete ballots — before turning them in.
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One woman signed 57 ballots, nearly 9% of all the absentee ballots that were cast in Robeson County.
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Another woman, Lisa Britt, who signed 28 of the Robeson ballots, also witnessed 42 ballots in Bladen County.
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The timing of this storm is interesting because absentee ballots, mail-in ballots went out a week ago.
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Brenda C. Snipes, the elections supervisor, said the missing ballots were probably misfiled with another stack of ballots.
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According to the outlet, officials will audit further absentee ballots on Friday that will cover around 600 ballots.
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Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill told reporters during an impromptu Tuesday night press conference in his state capitol office that the state will direct counties to count provisional ballots, absentee ballots and military ballots.
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It also includes confusing ballots, tampered ballots, electronic voting mishaps, and even insufficient or ill-prepared polling station volunteers.
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"It was a mistake [destroying the original ballots], but the ballots were preserved," Norris-Weeks told the Sun-Sentinel.
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There are legitimate concerns those ballots were mishandled, given the testimony of ballots that were collected unfinished or unsealed.
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Provisional ballots still had to be reviewed and mail-in ballots were not all counted in the tight race.
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Count the ballots As of Friday, officials have not yet finished counting all of the provisional and military ballots.
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What happened to those ballots is unclear, though affidavits suggest that a number of ballots were given to McCrae.
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In addition, the accountants remove any ballots whose first-place choices appear on fewer than 2450 percent of ballots.
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Trump lawyers asked for the ballots in question not to be "co-mingled or interspersed" with other ballots, CNN said.
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There were already legitimate concerns those ballots were mishandled, given the testimony of ballots that were collected unfinished or unsealed.
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The victor in the race remained undetermined because at least 3,22016 provisional ballots and 283,2605 absentee ballots must be reviewed.
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After combing through the ballots, Sessions said he identified 200 ballots that may have been tampered with by the activists.
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But there are always ballots turned in on Election Day, as well as provisional ballots, that can't be re-checked.
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Because provisional ballots overwhelmingly favor Democrats, it's in Nelson's interest to make sure as many ballots are counted as possible.
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But spoiled ballots don't matter if the gap between victory and loss is larger than the number of spoiled ballots.
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As of Thursday afternoon, Broward County election officials were still tallying up vote-by-mail ballots and early voting ballots.
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They found blacks accounted for 6900 percent of all ballots cast, compared to casting 2628 percent of ballots in 28503.
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The final counting of those ballots began on Friday, and could last until Tuesday, when the military ballots are due.
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According to Mother Jones, Florida officials rejected 24,000 ballots in 2012 and 28,000 ballots in 2016 for purportedly mismatched signatures.
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Simply counting all those ballots takes a long time, but Californians also cast their ballots in a time-consuming way.
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New Hampshire voters mark their choices down on paper ballots with pencils, and those ballots are then scanned and tallied.
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County officials are expected to begin counting provisional paper ballots late this week, and military ballots next week, officials said.
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According to CNN, the county rejected close to 600 ballots, more than a third of the total number of rejected ballots in the state, despite Gwinnett County accounting for just 6 percent of absentee ballots submitted in Georgia.
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But there are always ballots turned in on Election Day that can't be re-checked, and people that cast provisional ballots.
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As election officials go through outstanding ballots -- such as provisional ballots and those with write-ins -- the turnout figures will change.
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In other words: Voters were more likely to cast ballots for Clinton in urban areas, where paper ballots are more common.
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Early voting, absentee and mail-in ballots have now exceeded the total number of ballots cast in the 28500 midterm election.
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About 3,000 students cast ballots, but 314 were contested (including 195 ballots that are eligible but have not yet been counted).
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About 80 percent of voters today cast ballots either on D.R.E.s that produce a paper trail or on scanned paper ballots.
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There were already legitimate concerns that those ballots were mishandled, given the testimony of ballots that were collected unfinished or unsealed.
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Election officials there sought to discern voter intent through a maze of "hanging chads" (incompletely punched paper ballots) and "pregnant chads" (paper ballots that were dimpled, but not pierced, during the voting process), as well as "overvotes" (ballots that recorded multiple votes for the same office) and "undervotes" (ballots that recorded no vote for a given office).
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Impounding ballots — essentially having law enforcement officials monitor ballots and equipment when they're not being used in the recount — isn't that unusual.
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Registered voters receive ballots by mail -- though they can pick up ballots at county election offices if they're away from their address.
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That's because ballots with write-in candidates are often treated like provisional or absentee ballots and counted after ALL of the others.
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Unlike in the fill-in-the-bubble ballots common in the U.S., voters in Iran must write candidates' names on their ballots.
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The newspaper notes that ballots are due on Election Day and that requests for mail-in ballots aren't required until Oct. 85033.
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She said that during the congressional race, Dowless paid her to collect absentee ballots, including ballots that were not signed by witnesses.
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A set of 161 ballots obtained by CNN showed that nine people individually signed as "witnesses" on at least 10 absentee ballots.
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In total, as many Hispanic voters have already cast ballots in Florida's early voting period as cast ballots in all of 2012.
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Bedingfield said the number of ballots cast early in Arizona slightly exceeded the total number of ballots cast in the 2016 primary.
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The tight margin also sparked accusations that election officials improperly dismissed more than 2,000 affidavit ballots before the paper ballots were counted.
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In Fairfax County, the center of Democrats' suburban surge, just 23,818 ballots were cast four years ago; 244,607 ballots were cast yesterday.
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Some countries, including Greece, Spain and Ukraine, recognize these types of ballots, better known as "none of the above" or "scratch" ballots.
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Once the ballots are received, the board will follow the same processing protocols that are used for mail-in ballots, she added.
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And though the exact number of mail-in ballots was not yet known, they were expected to be outnumbered by provisional ballots.
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It included the handwritten completion of some ballots and, in violation of North Carolina law, the in-person collection of absentee ballots.
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The plaintiffs represented by Brown are asking the state to use hand-marked paper ballots along with its existing election management system and to use the ballot scanners it currently uses for paper absentee and provisional ballots for all ballots.
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Even if the federal government funded vote-by-mail across the country, it would be up to each state to determine how ballots are sent; whether all registered voters get ballots automatically, for example, or whether voters must request ballots.
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Ballots will be set up in just 500 of the country's 2,448 municipalities, and fewer than 2% of citizens will likely cast ballots.
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Ohio secretary of state John Husted said Tuesday night that there are 9113,435 provisional ballots and 5,048 absentee ballots still to be tallied.
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Exit polls show that 71% of Latino who cast ballots voted to re-elect the president, comprising of 15% of all ballots cast.
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The state's laws give its voters, about two-thirds of whom cast their ballots by mail, more time to send in their ballots.
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The Libertarians are likely to be on almost all 2202 ballots, with the Green Party on more than two-thirds of the ballots.
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There are also outstanding ballots from voters overseas -- including members of the military -- whose ballots have until November 16 to arrive in Florida.
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Make Oscars Ballots: Make ballots for your friends and family or print some out, like this great one from the New York Times.
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In some states, the number of ballots already cast is nearing the total number of ballots cast in 2014, including on Election Day.
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Voters cast their ballots by mail in Washington, and many ballots were mailed before the field of candidates winnowed over the past week.
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But some countries, including Spain, Ukraine and Greece, recognize these types of ballots, better known as "none of the above" or "scratch" ballots.
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The number of voided ballots account for 2.8 percent of 85033,000 ballots cast in three of the first four days of early voting.
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Removing QR codes from ballots will enable voters to see for themselves that their ballots are correct and helps guard against cyber meddling.
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People in several states had to deal with confusing ballots Tuesday People in several states had to deal with confusing ballots Tuesday As voters took to the polls to cast their votes Tuesday, some found themselves staring at ballots that defied understanding.
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While election officials are still tabulating ballots, the 126 million votes already counted means about 55% of voting age citizens cast ballots this year.
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In the district's Bladen County, Harris won 61 percent of absentee ballots, even though GOP voters asked for only 19 percent of those ballots.
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Mariano Cucho, head of Peru's national election office, ONPE, said officials are awaiting ballots cast in the inner provinces and absentee ballots cast abroad.
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Every one of those ballots goes through a verification process that involves matching voters' signatures on their ballots' envelopes with their voter registration forms.
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Sorey said she was concerned the box, which was labeled "provisional ballots," might have contained uncounted ballots and decided not to meddle with it.
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To be clear, no ballots have been counted as of yet, but trends can be discerned by the party affiliation of those returning ballots.
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Ballots for the California primary will be mailed out in just two weeks, and nearly 80 percent of California voters cast ballots by mail.
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In the 2016 general election, over 85033 percent of Florida voters cast their ballots early, either at early polling sites or through absentee ballots.
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"The State of Florida is not free to count some ballots multiple times in a recount and other ballots not at all," he said.
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His office said Wednesday evening that there were fewer than 25,000 ballots left to be counted in the race, 22,000 of them provisional ballots.
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While hundreds of voters opt to make their ballots public every year, it is not required, and many choose to keep their ballots anonymous.
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Studies detail how most voters do not check ballots from these systems, opening the door for ballots to be printed with the wrong candidates.
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Priscilla Duncan, the attorney who represented the four Alabama voters named in the case, argued that while those paper ballots are kept for 22 months, "the paper ballots aren't really what's counted" and only an unlikely state-wide recount would consult the paper ballots.
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Dowless allegedly requested absentee ballots for Bladen County residents, and he and his team would then harvest the ballots from those homes, mark all the candidates who Dowless wanted to win, then mail the ballots themselves, according to people who have worked with him.
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As of Sunday, roughly 214 million ballots had been mailed in, suggesting a high turnout, but more than 22020 million ballots had been mailed out, suggesting that many more people will send in ballots and show up at the polling places at the last minute.
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A federal judge issued an order Wednesday blocking the state from putting holds on absentee ballots and applications for ballots for the same signature issues.
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One woman who signed 28 ballots as a witness told WSOC that Dowless paid her $75 to $100 a week to pick up absentee ballots.
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But the race remains too close to call because provisional ballots must be reviewed and the count of mail-in ballots has not been completed.
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This year's awards saw almost double the amount of nominating ballots, while those voters largely rejected works that had been pushed onto the nominating ballots.
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One precedent is the Miami mayoral election in 1997, in which the fraudulent ballots that made the difference in the election were the absentee ballots.
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So the court found that the best remedy was to throw out the absentee ballots and certify the winner based on the regular ballots. Crazy!
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On Saturday, Sinema campaign manager Andrew Piatt continued to express a belief that there are more Democratic ballots left to be counted than Republican ballots.
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A North Carolina political operative paid workers to collect absentee ballots and falsify witness certifications for those ballots, the state's chief elections official said Monday.
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Walker's preliminary injunction requires officials to provide sample Spanish language ballots online, and Spanish signs at polling places to tell voters those ballots are available.
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Stein, who is currently on less than half of the states' ballots, said she hopes to be on 48-50 state ballots by Election Day.
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Those 266 ballots are not being counted because Florida law requires all ballots sent by mail to arrive at the election facility by 7 p.m.
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According to the Enquirer, 6900,2628 provisional ballots and 28503,22019 absentee ballots still have yet to be counted, which will reportedly be counted by Aug. 24.
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Provisional ballots are generally kept separate from other ballots until after the election and a determination is made as to whether a voter as eligible.
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But Lamb has a 641-vote lead over the Republican, Rick Saccone, and the remaining uncounted ballots are absentee ballots, which tend to lean Democratic.
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Mr. Harris won 61 percent of submitted absentee ballots in Bladen County, even though registered Republicans accounted for only 19 percent of the ballots submitted.
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Earlier, during the initial counting of votes, Dr. Snipes's office inadvertently mixed some 20 invalid provisional ballots in a stack of 205 otherwise valid ballots.
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Mr. Canova went to court afterward to request access to the ballots, to check them for voting irregularities, but the office discarded the ballots unlawfully.
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People who worked for Dowless described, under oath, illegally collecting ballots, forging witness signatures and even filling in any races left blank on unsealed ballots.
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"Let's not forget, though, that ballots are already being cast across much of the country between absentee ballots and early voting," said Mark Hamrick, Bankrate.
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Still, board members were told Monday that people working on Mr. Harris's behalf illegally collected absentee ballots and, in some instances, filled in incomplete ballots.
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The state's Democratic Party reports 12 percent of those ballots came from Hispanic voters — that's double the number of early ballots from Hispanic voters in 2012.
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The Orange County registrar reported Wednesday morning that there were still 188,488 ballots to count -- a trove of ballots that could affect all three Congressional races.
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Mr. Wright refused to concede, suggesting on Tuesday night that there had been voting irregularities and insisting that all absentee ballots and affidavit ballots be counted.
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Counties will not be required to accept absentee ballots with incorrect addresses or provisional ballots cast by people who tried to vote in the wrong county.
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Over 133,000 ballots have been returned, which is about 80% of the number of ballots cast for governor in the district in the last midterm election.
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The law allows election authorities to throw out absentee ballots if the signatures on the ballots' envelope matches the voters' signatures the county has on file.
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Had all such ballots been recounted by hand it is highly likely that Gore would have easily overcome the lead Bush had from recounted undervoted ballots.
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Protracted vote counting is not uncommon; state election officials routinely continue to process mail-in ballots and verify provisional ballots after the first results are reported.
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Nearly 513,000 people have already cast ballots in early voting — nearly three times the early vote in April, when only 193,000 ballots were cast over all.
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County election officials in Broward and Palm Beach are still sorting through vote-by-mail ballots and most counties are working their way through provisional ballots.
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Colorado, Washington and Oregon now allow all voters to cast ballots by mail, while 37 states and the District of Columbia let voters cast ballots early.
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CNN showed an unexpected method for collecting ballots: "Look Wolf they just stuffed these ballots in thirst popcorn baskets" -- in any other system that would be a reporter observing voter fraud Just to reiterate,the Republican nominee is being picked by ballots stuffed in popcorn baskets.
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Snipes also said she misplaced about 2,000 ballots at the time, though she now insists they are still in the building with the rest of the ballots.
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They said early voting ballots are still pouring in from counties around the state and implored voters to check the status of their absentee and provisional ballots.
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A: Most states have yet to report officials results, meaning they are still counting absentee or mail ballots or, more likely, deciding whether to count provisional ballots.
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During Sunday's vote counting in Phnom Penh, the capital, a Reuters journalist saw numerous ballots that had been ticked all over, while other ballots were left blank.
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One race in Ohio for a U.S. House seat is still undecided until all provisional ballots are reviewed and absentee ballots are counted – but Republican state Sen.
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The only way to ensure the integrity of an election, she told Motherboard, is through paper ballots and manual audits of those paper ballots after each election.
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Stephanie Fleming, spokeswoman for the Missouri Secretary of State's office said the state still has to count military and oversees absentee ballots, as well as provisional ballots.
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The final ballots were reportedly tabulated by machine late Wednesday night, and officials will use the remaining time before the deadline to hand count mail-in ballots.
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He added that the troubled city and other nearby precincts have run out or are running out of ballots, leaving polling staffers relying on provisional ballots instead.
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On Wednesday, for the first time, the permanent five — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — voted on red ballots, and the others on white ballots.
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The voters left off the list will still be able to cast provisional ballots, but Villaraigosa's campaign said voters should still be allowed to cast regular ballots.
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We asked them to provide more info about requesting mail-in ballots, we asked them to extend the deadline to accept the return of mail-in ballots.
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They can either mail in their ballots, postmarked no later than election day, or drop ballots off in person at their local election office by 8 p.m.
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Making a similar shift in the general election would require new machinery to sort and count ballots and updated processes to verify ballots come from legitimate voters.
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Mr. McDonald said Democratic candidates generally tend to gain votes as these ballots are counted because voters who choose such ballots are often younger or lean Democratic.
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That's when Californians can actually start voting, by casting ballots at their county elections offices, and that's also when vote-by-mail ballots will be sent out.
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Only three states—Oregon, Washington, and Colorado—had all of their ballots cast by mail, while another six had over half their votes cast as absentee ballots.
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Additionally, election officials extended the date by which absentee ballots can be received by 3rd Congressional District counties, as long as the ballots were postmarked by Tuesday.
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Additionally, election officials extended the date by which absentee ballots could be received by 3rd Congressional District counties, as long as the ballots were postmarked by Tuesday.
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The recanvass means Kentucky's 120 counties will check their voting machines and absentee ballots to ensure they were counted correctly, but they will not examine individual ballots.
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Strangely, though, based on the partisan breakdown of absentee ballots accepted in the county, Harris would have needed to win not only all the Republican ballots but also almost every single ballot from voters not registered with either party and a substantial number of Democratic ballots as well.
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Strangely, though, based on the partisan breakdown of absentee ballots accepted in the county, Harris would have needed to win not only all of the Republican ballots but also almost every single ballot from voters not registered with either party and a substantial number of Democratic ballots as well.
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But there were still court battles over lawsuits seeking to delay the primary, extend deadlines for absentee ballots to be requested and returned, allow absentee ballots to be cast without photo IDs being uploaded online, and allow voters to submit their absentee ballots without them being signed by witnesses.
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This year, there were 442 ballots -- including two blank ballots -- submitted by qualified senior members of the baseball writers associations with 10 or more consecutive years of service.
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Iraq&aposs Supreme Court last month approved a partial recount of paper ballots from inside and outside Iraq, contrary to the recount of all ballots requested by parliament.
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If the signatures on the ballots don't match the ones on file, they said, local election canvassing boards toss out the ballots and state officials don't consider them.
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Those are some 22020 national committee members, elected officials and party luminaries who can cast ballots at the Democratic National Convention (about 16 percent of the total ballots).
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But without those, it would create a "logistical nightmare" for election officials to find the ballots of voters who cast early in-person ballots and changed their minds.
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The prospective nominee with the fewest ballots has those ballots redistributed to other piles based on voters' second choices, third choices, fourth choices and fifth choices as needed.
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Roughly 275,210 ballots tallied in the county had the Senate race left blank — more than almost every other statewide race on Broward ballots — and it's a mystery why.
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County election officials have yet to finish counting late-arriving mail-in ballots or provisional ballots provided to voters at the polls when their eligibility wasn&apost clear.
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"There is suspicion about extra ballots where the number of ballots was higher than the number of voters in some districts," said Pheu Thai Party spokesperson Ladawan Wongsriwong.
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Second, for all federal elections regardless of outcome, state and local governments would be required to conduct audits comparing digital ballots to a random selection of paper ballots.
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Florida election officials manually recounted these ballots, poring over the infamous hanging chads and dimples on punch card ballots to ascertain whether they could detect a missed vote.
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That might be plausible if they were also helping to deliver the ballots, but remember only near-relatives or legal guardians can deliver ballots by North Carolina law.
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Nielsen said it "is absolutely a national security concern" when "there is no way to audit the election" through paper ballots or a paper trail of ballots. Sen.
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Something was also awry in Robeson County, where 40 percent of African-Americans' absentee ballots and 60 percent of Native Americans' absentee ballots were never officially turned in.
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Receiving ballots online or by email would create security issues: Hackers could block ballots from being distributed, or infect voters' computers with malware via these attachments or downloads.
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As of Tuesday night, with counties midway through tallying their provisional ballots, Mr. Kobach was leading Mr. Colyer by 345 votes out of more than 300,000 Republican ballots.
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Plus, news reports indicate Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., a person whom Harris hired to work on absentee ballots, had been allegedly coordinating a campaign to collect absentee ballots.
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However, you're going to need to be your biggest advocate when it comes to provisional ballots: These ballots are typically kept separately from all other ballots, so make sure to follow up with your local elected officials to confirm they have looked into your qualifications and have counted the vote.
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There are always mail-in ballots and provisional ballots that aren't counted — due to a lack of ID or matching address — that can be counted if they are rechecked.
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"I have real problems with ballots being sent [in early]," Trump said at his rally at Golden, Colorado, on Saturday — hinting that ballot collectors might be throwing ballots away.
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Germany uses paper ballots, and while the results of those ballots are transmitted electronically, the systems used for such transmissions have lately been reinforced in preparation for Sept. 24.
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Balderson maintains a slim one-percentage point lead with all precincts reporting, but there are at least 2507,2000 provisional ballots left to be reviewed and 24,048 outstanding absentee ballots.
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Balderson held a slim one-percentage point lead with all precincts reporting, but there were at least 3,435 provisional ballots left to be reviewed and 19743,048 outstanding absentee ballots.
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"In addition, those taking ballot selfies inside a polling place may inadvertently capture the ballots of other voters who did not wish to have their ballots publicized," he added.
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Investigators are probing whether some absentee ballots were altered by Dowless and a loosely connected group working with him, or whether ballots collected from voters were never turned in.
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Just 6 percent of black voters cast ballots for the Arizona senator, an 81 percent drop from the last presidential race, when Nixon won 32 percent of black ballots.
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Instead, officials say mailing out ballots before Election Day will allow voters to drop off already filled-out ballots in an effort to limit interactions and promote social distancing.
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A risk-limiting audit performed on an election with tens of millions of ballots may require that as few as several hundred randomly selected ballots be inspected by hand.
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Fewer than half the states do manual audits, and they typically examine ballots from randomly chosen precincts in a county, instead of a percentage of ballots from all precincts.
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For the county ballots, the request could cover more than 2.2 million ballots that are traceable to individual voters, and more than 3.2 million that are untraceable to individuals.
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That's not because there is fraud but because it takes a while to process and count absentee ballots, and in recent elections such ballots have tended to be Democratic.
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Residents who planned on voting by mail may have seen their ballots washed away by the storm; others have left the state and cannot receive absentee ballots by mail.
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In Wyandot County, ballots examined for the lawsuit found officials approved ballots without a valid street address, city or zip code, a wrong or missing birthdate, or a misspelled name.
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Voters will be casting their ballots all day — poll opening times vary locally, and indeed, all the residents of three tiny towns gathered to cast their ballots at midnight Tuesday.
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As of Wednesday, there were still 600,000 mail-in ballots — of more than 2 million total ballots cast — that Arizona officials were waiting to process in places like Maricopa County.
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And Nelson has taken the fight to the courts, suing to make sure that counties have enough time to count the ballots, and are counting as many ballots as possible.
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But a set of 240 absentee ballots for the 2495th Congressional District obtained by CNN on Monday showed that the same nine people signed at least 262 absentee ballots each.
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Both sides agreed, however, that the total number of ballots in question would be around 5,000, similar to the number of mismatched-signature ballots in question after the 2016 election.
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A third of voters say they will use their ballots to register opposition to Trump, while 2202 percent say they consider their ballots a vote in support of the president.
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A federal judge ruled Thursday morning that voters whose mail-in and provisional ballots were initially rejected due to signature issues will get two more days to fix their ballots.
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Now, investigators are probing whether some absentee ballots were altered by Dowless and a loosely connected group working with him, or if ballots collected from voters were never turned in.
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Voters cast ballots at some 53,000 polling stations, writing down the names of their picks on two separate ballots and dyeing their fingers with ink to show they had voted.
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Voters who receive their ballots in the mail weeks before Election Day can either mail those ballots back to election officials or return them to county or local drop boxes.
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Sam Taylor, communications director for the Texas Secretary of State's office, told CNN that the location immediately made emergency ballots available so that voters could continue to cast their ballots.
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Rules can include restrictions on who can do so, whether voters must affirmatively request mail-in ballots, the process by which to request such ballots and deadlines for returning them.
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Harris's stepdaughter also testified that workers sometimes signed as witnesses for ballots even though they were not witnesses, dated forms inaccurately, filled in parts of ballots, and even forged signatures.
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It is clear that third parties collected absentee ballots from voters, which is explicitly illegal under North Carolina law even if no one tampered with the ballots after collecting them.
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More than 511,000 voters cast straight-ticket Democratic ballots in Harris County, which has a population of more than 4.7 million people, compared with about 408,000 Republican straight-ticket ballots.
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They can cast more informed ballots while creating new democratic rituals, joining friends to drop off their ballots or voting with children and family members around their dining room tables.
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Florida voters fill in paper ballots by hand using a pen, and no longer cast the punch-card ballots that produced the infamous "hanging chads" in the 2000 presidential election.
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People can cast their ballot by mail, and as long as it's postmarked by election day those ballots still count, meaning physical ballots will still be trickling in for days.
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He was also on all of the 13 additional public ballots and six anonymous ones uncovered by Ryan Thibodaux, a hobbyist who tracks the Baseball Hall of Fame ballots online.
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As of November, 38 states allowed voters to cast ballots before Election Day, either by opening polling places early or by letting voters cast early absentee ballots for any reason.
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Canova didn't even know that the boxes of ballots had been destroyed, only finding out during a hearing two months after the ballots had been thrown out, and one month after Snipes's attorney had told Canova's legal representation that they could examine the ballots (which now no longer existed except as digital scans).
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A SURGE IN ABSENTEE VOTERS Specifically, the Democrats were concerned about absentee ballots in the largely rural Bladen County, where 26 percent of voters asked for absentee ballots, the Observer reported.
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A SURGE IN ABSENTEE VOTERS Specifically, the Democrats were concerned about absentee ballots in the largely rural Bladen County, where 7.5 percent of voters asked for absentee ballots, the Observer reported.
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Scott's lawsuit cites a statute that says unofficial ballot returns "shall include the canvass of all ballots as required by" another part of the law about absent voters and provisional ballots.
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Trump's lawyers asked for an order to have the pertinent early vote ballots -- those cast after the designated polling hours Friday -- not to be "co-mingled or interspersed" with other ballots.
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And early voting is popular in the state, with about 270 in 673 Nevada voters casting their ballots (mostly in person, though some by absentee ballots) before Election Day in 267.
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The electoral commission has rearranged the layout in polling booths so that voters must face the presiding officers when marking their ballots, though the officers will not see the ballots themselves.
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Arizona is among the states that are heavily dependent on mail-in ballots, which enable residents to vote early or physically drop off their ballots at designated locations on Election Day.
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The state investigated further, she said, and found additional "discrepancies that were out of the ordinary" between the number of people who cast ballots, and the number of ballots actually recorded.
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In Texas, more than 85033 million people cast in-person ballots in this year's early voting period, and more than 360,000 people have cast mail-in ballots in 30 counties alone.
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Roughly 1.6 million early ballots have been accepted or returned, according to figures collated by the United States Election Project, whereas just over 1 million advance ballots were cast in 2014.
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In Texas, more than 85033 million people cast in-person ballots in this year's early voting period, and more than 360,000 people have cast mail-in ballots in 30 counties alone.
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The lawsuit requests that the county auditor and secretary of state use barcode information on the ballots to determine the dates of the ballots and count those that were legally cast.
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The Arkansas law would also impact voters who cast ballots by mail: Those voters would be required to include a photocopy of their identification when they send in their absentee ballots.
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Maricopa County's recorder attempted to send absentee-by-mail ballots to every single voter, regardless if they requested one, but the trucks to deliver those ballots were stopped by the courts.
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In the Senate race, Nelson trailed Scott by about 12,600 votes, or 0.15 percent of the more than 8 million ballots cast following an electronic recount of ballots in the Nov.
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The number represents 3.7% of all early votes cast over the weekend, the officials said, and the majority of those voided ballots stemmed from a lack of signatures on the ballots.
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Unlike the purely electronic ballots of a paperless e-voting machine, mail-in ballots come with a built-in paper trail, so that the results can be verified via random audits.
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Britt said she forged her mother's signature on between seven and nine ballots to "not raise red flags" that the same people were signed as witnesses on too many absentee ballots.
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Particularly toward the end of a count, counties with more votes can start getting to the last few votes, provisional ballots can be verified, and mail-in ballots can come in.
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In Bladen County, where Mr. Dowless primarily worked, Mr. Harris won 61 percent of the received absentee ballots, even though registered Republicans accounted for only 19 percent of the ballots submitted.
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There's also no good reason voters who cast ballots in counties that have difficulties counting ballots should be disenfranchised — other than that Republicans want counting to stop while they're still ahead.
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Particularly toward the end of a count, counties with larger populations may start getting to the last few votes, provisional ballots can be verified, and mail-in ballots can be tabulated.
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After nearly 100 ballots, the two leading candidates — Gov.
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But not to worry — the ballots will still count.
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But the closeness of the race — more than 453 million votes were cast — may trigger an automatic recount; that would mean manual vote counting and close scrutiny of "overseas and military ballots, provisional ballots and vote by mail ballots that have defects such as a missing or non-matching signature," the Miami Herald reported.
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A Florida judge ruled that Snipes violated state and federal laws when she destroyed ballots too soon after the 2016 election, despite one of the Democratic candidates in a primary race taking her to court to preserve the ballots and a federal requirement that mandates ballots be kept for 22 months after an election.
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Maria Matthews, director of the Florida Division of Election, testified that out of 45 counties reporting so far, the state has rejected 3,688 vote-by-mail ballots and another 93 provisional ballots.
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County election officials were still considering some ballots into the afternoon — it's unclear how many, but in Broward County, officials tried to assess voter intent on two dozen ballots with confusing marks.
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It's unclear how many ballots were returned this way, because local election officials don't track them, but some have suggested that while both parties "harvested" ballots Democrats were more successful at it.
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Indonesia's election watchdog has called for a revote for more than 300,000 Indonesians living in neighboring Malaysia because officials discovered invalid ballots, which were punched by non-voters, and other uncast ballots.
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Over 3,600 ballots already cast in North Carolina More than 3,600 people in North Carolina have apparently they've decided that they've seen enough of the 2016 campaign and already cast their ballots.
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In fact, the workers Harris hired violated North Carolina election law by collecting absentee ballots from voters, forging signatures, opening unsealed ballots and filling out down-ballot races in favor of Republicans.
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Golden Week was created in response to problems on Election Day in 2004, including long lines, issues with registration status and polling locations, absentee ballots and provisional ballots, and unlawful identification requirements.
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In the case of rejected ballots, research suggests that younger and minority voters, who often lean Democratic, are among the most likely to have their ballots rejected because of signature matching issues.
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The federal government is seeking documents dating back to 2010 including voter registration application information, forms that voters sign at polling places before casting ballots, records declaring U.S. citizenship and official ballots.
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To accommodate voters casting ballots in person who don't want to use the new VSAP system, the state has required every voting center in the county to have paper ballots on hand.
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The canvassing board was forced to choose which results to use, while Dr. Snipes said the ballots that weren't included in the recount had probably been misfiled with another stack of ballots.
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Preliminary data provided by the secretary of state shows that the greatest number of ballots rejected on signature issues was in Palm Beach County, a Democratic stronghold that threw out 931 ballots.
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In data collected by Ryan Thibodaux, who tracks Hall of Fame ballots, Bonds and Clemens were picked by 13 of 14 first-time voters who made their ballots public before the announcement.
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But there are hints that Louisiana voters are excited to show up: More than 370,000 people cast ballots during the early voting period, an increase of 100,000 ballots from the 2015 race.
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According to preliminary results, more than 98 percent of CVS shareholders' ballots and 97 percent of Aetna shareholders' ballots were in favor of the deal, the companies said in separate press releases.
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More than 2528 million people cast early in-person ballots and nearly 22018,240 mailed in their ballots during Texas's 26.5-day early voting period, according to a report from the Texas Tribune.
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Just this month, a federal judge ruled that Florida's election law for disqualifying mail-in ballots amounts to "taking as many as 23,000 ballots, crumbling them into balls, and throwing them in the trash like dirty tissue, without any opportunity to cure," because the state's law would throw out ballots with mismatched signatures with NO NOTICE to voters.
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Right now, Republican-seeming voters have cast more ballots than Democratic-seeming voters, but that's largely because mail-in ballots are sent to voters weeks before Election Day (to give them time to cast a vote and mail it in.) That means when early voting first opens, mail-in ballots are usually the first votes to be counted.
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She did say, though, that campaign workers delivered sealed absentee ballots from the homes of people who requested them to Dowless's office — though North Carolina law forbids third parties from handling those ballots.
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The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged.
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Absentee ballots received so far show Republicans punching above their weight, accounting for 34 percent of ballots returned even though they only amount to 26 percent of registered voters, according to Political Data.
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"The issue in this case is whether Florida's statutory scheme, which provides an opportunity to cure no-signature ballots yet denies that same opportunity for mismatched-signature ballots, is legally tenable," he wrote.
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Though the county Board of Elections had distributed corrected ballots by midafternoon Tuesday, any ballots cast before then had to be counted by hand, said Greg Fingar, the chairman of the county Republicans.
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"I've been told the way they do it is they collect the ballots early, they put them in a microwave with a bowl of water, steam them open, take the ballots," he explained.
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In Florida, legislators rewrote state laws, switched to paper ballots and optical scanners (no more butterfly ballots or hanging chads), and mandated automatic recounts for races with margins of half a percentage point.
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"The Colyer campaign consistently led in mail-in ballots statewide in this election,'' he wrote, "so we can reasonably expect to gain ground as more of these valid ballots are received and counted.
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Ms. Abrams's campaign questioned those statistics, contending that with military and overseas ballots facing a Friday deadline for return, there was no way for the state to know how many ballots were pending.
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Republicans won access to vote tabulations and the timing of mailed-in ballots, arguing that only with greater transparency could it be assured that legally filed ballots were the only ones being tabulated.
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Some lawmakers have also pushed for paper ballots, with a group of congressional Democrats introducing legislation in May that would require hand-marked paper ballots and "statistically rigorous" cybersecurity audits for federal elections.
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Those ballots mostly come from voters who sent them in at the last minute, and provisional voters who showed up and cast ballots that they have to take an extra step to validate.
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That's out of more than 213 million ballots sent out -- a flood that allows the vast majority of the state's more than 210 million registered voters to cast their ballots before March 53.
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The process repeats, with the last-place candidate being eliminated and his or her ballots transferred to the next highest-ranking candidate on those ballots, until one candidate has a majority of support.
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The ballots are tallied and a statewide winner is declared.
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The candidates were nevertheless barred from appearing on official ballots.
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"Many ballots are missing or forged," he tweeted on Monday.
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That is, if the ballots can still reliably be counted.
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Those figures excluded 16.4 percent of blank or spoiled ballots.
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As counties tallied ballots, Scott's campaign, Trump and GOP Sen.
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After 35 deadlocked ballots, the House selected Jefferson as president.
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Voters cast their ballots at the Napleton Northwestern Chrysler dealership.
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Worth noting: Florida accepts overseas and military ballots through Nov.
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On September 30th Macedonian voters cast ballots on the deal.
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Under state law, ballots that missed the deadline are disqualified.
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Voters are expected to cast their ballots on November 24.
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One is a measure to require absentee ballots in caucuses.
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Caucus absentee ballots are already available in Nebraska's Democratic caucus.
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That could change as California continues to count outstanding ballots.
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On subsequent ballots, a candidate needs only a simple majority.
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Bloomberg will not appear on any ballots until Super Tuesday.
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People cast their ballots for the mayor of Chicago, 27.
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Voters will cast ballots for president, parliament and ward councillors.
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These are not results -- ballots aren't counted until Election Day.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers, which oversees the ballots, confirmed the error and apologized.
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Another 13 of Florida's counties were still counting provisional ballots.
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In one vote, the 81 senators mysteriously cast 82 ballots.
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The addresses printed on the ballots read "low Earth orbit".
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Counting provisional and absentee ballots can stretch on for days.
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The sheriffs carry the ballots inside for processing and tabulation.
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So I have the opportunity to fill out 40 ballots.
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Individual states, though, likely couldn't keep candidates off their ballots.
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When it happens, it tends to happen with absentee ballots.
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Overseas absentee ballots will be accepted until Friday at noon.
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His statewide margin of victory was fewer than 235,000 ballots.
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Nearly 78,000 Absentee Ballots returned in Rep and Dem Primaries.
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Many cast their ballots in support of the government's initiative.
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And yes, lost ballots were even found on multiple occasions.
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Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots.
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For domestic voters, election officials must mail ballots between Oct.
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I think it's very unlikely to have ballots thrown out.
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Overall, there are still 211,85033 total outstanding ballots in Arizona.
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In Robeson, about 62%, or 1,180 ballots, were not returned.
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In Georgia, there were two main types of provisional ballots.
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Overseas military and civilian ballots are due by November 16.
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Voters can't be turned away due to lack of ballots.
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Thousands of election machines across the country count paper ballots.
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The savings in paper for printed ballots would be enormous.
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Two ballots were also required to choose former Massachusetts Gov.
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Voters in both states will cast ballots on March 28500.
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An increasing number of voters cast ballots through the mail.
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The 2628 ballots in question did not have a postmark.
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Only 1003 absentee ballots were ultimately cast in the county.
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These voters cast their ballots for Trump by large margins.
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Clinton leads among the voters who have already cast ballots.
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Voters in Wisconsin will cast their primary ballots next Tuesday.
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"We're voting with paper ballots," he told CNN by phone.
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Many voters in the state have already submitted mail ballots.
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And another caucus volunteer wearing a Trump shirt taking ballots.
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Counting ballots takes time — potentially days, weeks, or even months.
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Putting ballots or machines on the internet breaks the chain.
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In the 2628 midterms, state voters cast 28500,6900 absentee ballots.
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Nationally, about half of eligible voters did not cast ballots.
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Above, ballots were prepared at a polling site in Rome.
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But they do need machinery to process and count ballots.
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Some of them have already cast ballots in local elections.
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But Florida wasn't the only state still furiously counting ballots.
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Let election officials do their job and count the ballots.
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Paper ballots remain the best method for maintaining election security.
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Chicago voters cast ballots during the Illinois primary March 17.
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Beyond the 220 no votes, three ballots were left blank.
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In California, more than 16 million ballots were sent out.
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Officials said they planned to continue counting ballots later Wednesday.
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In North Carolina, 792,000 voters have already cast their ballots.
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For Mexico, it was a victory of ballots over bullets.
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Campaigns have been told to contact people with invalid ballots.
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Neither received the 75% of the ballots to gain election.
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Fake ballots are a feature no voting machine should have.
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Her team is focused on uncounted provisional and absentee ballots.
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The campaign also said absentee ballots could make a difference.
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The board said polling places would use only paper ballots.
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Any ballots that were submitted in February would be destroyed.
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About 75,000 Nevadans have cast their ballots during early voting.
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Nearly 75,000 Nevadans cast early ballots ahead of the debate.
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The two MVP finalists were named on all 100 ballots.
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Those delegates go on to cast ballots at the convention.
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Trump won 95% of the vote there with 524 ballots.
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Millions more voters have already requested or received absentee ballots.
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Six million Americans with felony convictions still cannot cast ballots.
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Absentee ballots have long been available in dozens of states.
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Those who cast ballots said they were voting for stability.
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"On Election Day, Broward reported approximately 22000,22000 ballots," Gaetz yelled.
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I want paper ballots and audits for the 2020 election.
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North Carolina has already mailed out 53,000 ballots to voters.
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I'll say that again: Some voters' ballots are counted twice.
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Several of Dowless's employees have told BuzzFeed News that he paid them to collect absentee ballots from voters so he could submit them to the county — and some sworn ballots were incomplete or unsealed.
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She did say, though, that campaign workers delivered sealed absentee ballots from the homes of people who requested them to McCrae Dowless's office — though North Carolina law forbids third parties from handling those ballots.
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But Clinton aides insist that Obama's outreach is working there, where their analysis says 500,000 African Americans have already cast their ballots in Florida through both in-person voting and through mail-in ballots.
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The suit represents a challenge to a Florida law mandating that county election officials must match signatures on provisional and mail-in ballots to a state database, and reject ballots with a signature mismatch.
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Jeff Colyer by 110 votes out of 313,000-plus cast after late mail-in ballots from all 105 counties were added Friday to totals from advance voting and ballots cast at the polls Tuesday.
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There's actually a scandal happening now in West Dallas, Texas, it looks like some elderly voters were targeted with fake requests for absentee ballots and those ballots were potentially voted in the wrong way.
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"The court's ruling impacts thousands of ballots, and that number will likely increase as larger counties like Broward add their ballots to the total pool which can be cured," Elias said in a statement.
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Republicans have charged that Democrats purposely broke the law hoping to get more ballots into the counting pool in anticipation of a potential court ruling that might validate ballots that arrived past the deadline.
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That problem is gone, because most of the state (including Broward County) now uses optical scan ballots -- that is, ballots where the voter fills in a bubble, like on a standardized test, to vote.
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On one hand, campaigns that spend millions of dollars identifying voters can use updated results to chase ballots, tracking down those most likely to support them to make sure their ballots are turned in.
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Voters have also said an unidentified woman picked up their ballots, in another apparent violation of state law, and an unusually high number of absentee ballots were requested in the Ninth but never returned.
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While Democrats typically have a problem with unreturned mail ballots, my sense is given this lopsided number that at some point Democrats will start achieving at least daily parity in the returned mail ballots.
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State law gives voters until election day itself to stamp and mail their ballots, and those ballots will be counted so long as they arrive at election offices by the Friday following Tuesday's elections.
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But, Burden says, "California is exceptional … in its willingness to give voters provisional ballots," and while in many states the majority of provisional ballots are rejected, in California they mostly end up getting counted.
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It was an extraordinarily close race, and though at first it looked like Valadao had a lead that wouldn't be affected by mail-in ballots, it ultimately flipped on the last mail-in ballots.
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There have been instances of fraud involving mail-in ballots, most famously in 2018 when North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris hired a political operative who allegedly illegally tampered with Democratic absentee ballots.
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In California, in addition to the surge in mail-in ballots, the slog of counting provisional ballots is partly why Hillary Clinton's share of the popular vote kept ticking up long after Election Day.
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The razor-thin margin and a dispute over 114 disqualified affidavit ballots have triggered a full manual recount of the roughly 91,000 total ballots cast on June 25, which is set to start on Tuesday.
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Several of Dowless's employees have told BuzzFeed News he paid them to collect absentee ballots from people so he could submit them to the county — and some people have sworn ballots were incomplete or unsealed.
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Ballots were mailed out to all registered voters starting October 227, and more than 2000 million Coloradans have already cast their votes by mailing in their ballots or dropping it off at a polling center.
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Where and when to vote early Voters in a handful of states have already started to request, receive, and cast absentee ballots, and some states publicly disclose how many Republicans and Democrats have requested ballots.
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"The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged," Trump tweeted.
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Nelson campaign sues Bay County elections official over emailed ballots Nelson's campaign is suing Bay County's supervisor of elections, who accepted 158 ballots via email or fax from voters who were impacted by Hurricane Michael.
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The suit argued that voters should not be held responsible for the speed of the US Postal Service and their ballots should be treated similar to ballots mailed from overseas, which have a later deadline.
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"The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged," tweeted Trump.
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Lansdale's main contribution to the campaign was to suggest that the ballots for Diem be printed in red (considered a lucky color) and the ballots for Bao Dai in green (a color associated with cuckolds).
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Civil rights groups in Florida are suing for bilingual ballots, claiming the English-language ballots in a state with a growing population of Spanish-speakers are a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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According to The Texas Tribune, over 6900 million people in Texas cast in-person ballots in this year's early voting period and more than 2628,28503 people have cast mail-in ballots in 22019 counties alone.
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The new laws are a conscious trade-off, those involved with election administration said: They are meant to place a greater weight on enfranchising voters and counting more ballots than on counting those ballots quickly.
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So far, 925,140 absentee ballots had been requested and 597,667 were already returned, the Michigan secretary of state's office said Friday -- though the office didn't say how many of those were Democratic or Republican ballots.
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At the center of the Texas case was the counting of absentee, military and overseas ballots sent in by mail as well as provisional ballots, which are effectively temporary votes that are not yet official.
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Those changes include pushing back the deadline for when mail ballots must be received, allowing election officials to start processing ballots before Election Day, and providing federal funding to support state and local election administrators.
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In San Francisco last week, voters made eight times as many errors on ballots for the gubernatorial primary, which was run using the standard method, as they did on mayoral ballots, which used ranked-choice.
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According to the Nevada Independent, 940 voters who cast early ballots have been informed by the party that those ballots had flaws and that they will have to caucus Saturday if they want to participate.
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Thousands of Latino residents, voting for the first time, did not receive the vote-by-mail ballots they had requested, and had to cast provisional ballots; because of the great volume, many ended up languishing.
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"We will be asking for a recount," said Norwood, who is pointing to absentee ballots from military members and some other ballots she believes were not included in the final count, according to multiple reports.
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Mr. Dowless's stepdaughter was among the day's witnesses, and she testified that she had personally collected ballots — a violation of state law — and that people working for Mr. Dowless had sometimes filled in incomplete ballots.
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But worries did emerge after November's balloting, especially in Bladen County, where Mr. Harris won 403 percent of the received absentee ballots, even though registered Republicans accounted for only 19 percent of the ballots submitted.
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"The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged," he tweeted.
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Judge Jack Tuter rejected Scott's request to have police oversee ballots.
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Last year, Clemens was on 206 ballots and Bonds on 202.
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Working against Deadpool: The nominations ballots only have five slots total.
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Three million ballots were not illegally cast in the 2016 election.
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More than half of white women voters cast ballots for Trump.
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After a sketchy election, Gabon plans to count the ballots again.
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With 99.9 percent of ballots counted, the Socialists received most votes.
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There are no ballots to punch holes in or write on.
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Voters bused around a city, casting ballots eight to ten times!
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Ballots for that candidate then go to the voter's second choice.
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Sunday to get all the ballots in just under the wire.
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Here's a breakdown of the outcomes on state and local ballots:
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They have until September 4, when ballots start printing, to decide.
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In Wyoming, for example, women had been casting ballots since 1869.
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And voters will sign in and cast their ballots on paper.
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Voting officials (right) count ballots at a polling station in Kisumu.
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Britt told BuzzFeed News she did witness absentee ballots being completed.
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Yet counting mail ballots takes longer than counting in-person votes.
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"I get to count ballots that will be ignored," Bucher sighed.
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Some states say voters are asking how to change their ballots.
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Rejected absentee ballots in the state have also been an issue.
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Arizona largely uses paper ballots and also has touch screen machines.
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Elsewhere the number of ballots appeared greater than that of voters.
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It is unclear how many ballots were affected in Broward County.
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Voters deserve to know the truth before they cast their ballots.
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There also were reports of polling stations running out of ballots.
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So far this year, only 271,2000 Democrats have asked for ballots.
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Le Pen managed to snag just 35 percent of the ballots.
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Pennsylvania uses a mix of paper ballots and electronic voting machines.
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At this point in 2012, nearly 22012,230 ballots had been cast.
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Mr. Opont said workers transporting ballots were robbed of election materials.
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Elections officials began mailing absentee ballots in North Carolina last week.
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Idaho Counties must send out requested absentee ballots by September 23.
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One in ten voters defaced their ballots or left them blank.
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Some voters spoilt their ballots by scrawling on them, "Nayib 2019".
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It&aposs the provisional ballots that are yet to be counted.
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Some precincts they are reporting have reported running low on ballots.
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S. citizens&apos ability to register to vote and cast ballots.
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So by tomorrow, hopefully almost everybody will have their ballots in.
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And, of course, ballots submitted digitally allow for near instantaneous returns.
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Paper ballots, plastic tubs, human counters: It's remarkably similar all over.
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Conventional wisdom: Voters came out to cast ballots against Donald Trump.
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But the ballots went his way, as did several other moments.
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That accounts for 0.000002% of all ballots cast in the race.
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Democrats will also cast ballots for lower-ranking leadership posts. Rep.
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Kim's lead over Cisneros has been narrowing as ballots are counted.
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In the 2014 midterm, 88% of the absentee ballots were returned.
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Forty-four percent cast ballots in favor, and 4 percent abstained.
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Facebook about an Ohio warehouse of fraudulent ballots filled out for
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And Colorado now mails ballots to all of their registered voters.
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Only eligible Oregonians are able to cast ballots in our elections.
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The last day they can submit mailed ballots is Sept. 24.
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Matt Bevin is calling for a recanvass of ballots next week.
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He stated that he had over 800 ballots in his possession.
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In this contest, the GOP edge was only about 50,000 ballots.
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It beats the laborious, and frustrating, process of mailing absentee ballots.
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Thousands of provisional and mail-in ballots remain to be cast.
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She won the popular vote, however, by nearly 3 million ballots.
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Programmers need to adapt this open-source software to local ballots.
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An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected.
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Finally, any provisional ballots cast on Election Day must be adjudicated.
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The people who signed multiple ballots are loosely connected to Dowless.
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They then have to scan these ballots in one by one.
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Three people signed as a witness for more than 40 ballots.
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County election officials are defending their decision to exclude the ballots.
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He said the counting of the ballots will continue on Wednesday.
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And then the next aspect is that those ballots are counted.
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What did the Russian hack affect when it comes to ballots?
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However, nearly 8,500 provisional and absentee ballots remained to be reviewed.
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The site initially had around 50 to 20103 ballots, she said.
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Voters mark paper ballots, which are then counted by a scanner.
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Muslet receives 124 ballots, or approximately 12 percent of the vote.
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That could help him on subsequent ballots at a contested convention.
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Forty-four percent cast ballots in favor and 4 percent abstained.
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Congress MUST pass my bill to require paper ballots and audits.
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Since 1997, Rhode Island has used optical scanners with paper ballots.
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The discussion over marijuana legalization has reached ballots in several states.
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Matamoros said all the ballots had been counted and irregularities resolved.
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Voters who requested absentee ballots said that they never received them.
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By contrast, 138,000 voters had cast ballots in the Republican primary.
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Some 2,500 completed ballots were inside, in six sealed ballot boxes.
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Counties have been asked to produce millions more, including actual ballots.
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Indiana typically requires an excuse to vote via mail absentee ballots.
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Election Day is April 24; early ballots go out this week.
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More than 12 million eligible voters mailed in their postal ballots.
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Give citizens abroad more time to request and receive their ballots.
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Voters cast ballots for a candidate, a party or a coalition.
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But a few thousand absentee ballots had not yet been counted.
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Background: Over 203 days, hundreds of millions of voters cast ballots.
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Then, too, citizens must be in India to cast their ballots.
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Such handling of absentee ballots is illegal under North Carolina law.
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A judge denied his request for a review of mail ballots.
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A few hundred ballots stand out in such a small pool.
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Democrats sued, challenging local processes that render thousands of ballots invalid.
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When the ballots were counted, Jacky Rosen defeated Senator Dean Heller.
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Frustrations arose not from close margins, but from the ballots themselves.
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An honest vote count is no longer possible — ballots massively infected.
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The Florida GOP is accusing election officials of opening absentee ballots.
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All military and other voters overseas also can cast absentee ballots.
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Absentee ballots would be accepted by elections officials in the meantime.
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Some mail-in and provisional ballots were yet to be counted.
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Parents and other community members also received ballots in the mail.
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His latest missive about missing and forged ballots is no different.
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And some voters have said that they never received their ballots.
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There are also overseas and provisional ballots still to be counted.
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Today's also the first time Michael Bloomberg will appear on ballots.
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Provisional ballots also pose an additional challenge to quickly reporting results.
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Even unaffiliated voters can cast ballots in the Reform Party primary.
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Use paper ballots to establish a backup record of each vote.
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In Ohio, for example, absentee ballots can be submitted via mail.
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In November 2016, some 81 percent cast ballots in his favor.
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And there are no secret ballots at the Iowa Democratic caucuses.
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The landscape could still change dramatically once voters begin casting ballots.
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Latinx voters still tend to cast their ballots for Republicans; Sen.
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The law would allow family members or caretakers to collect ballots.
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Just over 141,000 of them cast ballots, most through the mail.
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Jeter, a shortstop, was named on 22018 percent of the ballots.
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Above, voters waiting to cast ballots in Bengaluru, India, on Saturday.
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The paper ballots are collected by election workers and counted manually.
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Another aspect of the Voter's Choice Act impacted mail-in ballots.
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Voters can also drop mail-in ballots at physical polling locations.
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There's a good reason California is so slow at counting ballots.
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Many more voters already cast ballots in North Carolina and Texas.
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Nearly 4 percent of voters cast their ballots for no one.
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If not, the ballots are tallied in a series of rounds.
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Ballots postmarked Election Day are accepted up to three days later.
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On March 10, voters in six more states will cast ballots.
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More issues surfaced: Did any ballots get lost in the mail?
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"Well, Newt, the first hundred ballots are the hardest," Roosevelt said.
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Democrats hold 26 of the 34 Senate seats on 2018 ballots.
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Generally speaking, people were excited to cast their ballots for him.
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Ditch the multiple ballots and the public cajoling of candidate supporters.
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Clinton won the popular vote with illegal ballots, Mr. Ryan demurred.
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The Pennsylvania jurists would only need panel ballots and floor votes.
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Let Americans living overseas mail their ballots cheaply and with ease.
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In the end, will voters cast ballots on tweets or jobs?
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Some lined up before dawn on Wednesday to cast their ballots.
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A dozen attorneys general seats will be on ballots next year.
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Voters can choose to be unaffiliated by casting "issues only" ballots.
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Absentee ballots have already been mailed, and Alaskans are already voting.
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In 2015, 95 voters cast ballots in a referendum on resettling.
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Most Florida counties still must sort through and evaluate provisional ballots.
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"Remember, it's not over until Electoral College casts ballots" https://t.
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Her campaign went to court repeatedly in search of uncounted ballots.
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"In contrast, many US ballots are long and complicated," he said.
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North Carolina law typically forbids third parties from handling absentee ballots.
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Unidentified men stole the ballots from a polling station in Basilan.
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"In jurisdictions that receive ballots by PDF or JPEG attachment, election workers must routinely click on documents from unknown sources to process emailed or faxed ballots, exposing the computer receiving the ballots — and any other devices on the same network — to a host of cyberattacks that could be launched from a false ballot laden with malicious software," the report says.
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The Mexico City government reported isolated problems such as polls opening late, 17 stations that ran out of ballots and the robbery of 583 ballots that were headed to a station in the borough of Iztapalapa.
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The New York City Board of Elections will begin counting more than 3,400 absentee ballots on July 3, and that does not include affidavits, commonly known as provisional ballots, that need to be verified before counting.
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If use of paper ballots becomes more widespread, election officials should re-examine current practices for securing the chain of custody of all paper ballots and verify no opportunities exist for the introduction of fraudulent votes.
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A federal judge in Atlanta on Wednesday issued an order blocking Georgia officials from rejecting absentee ballots and applications for ballots with signature problems without first giving voters notice and a chance to fix the problem.
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Abrams' campaign claimed that 77,000 mail-in ballots remain uncounted in seven counties, along with an estimated 20,000 absentee ballots from Gwinnett County, which experienced a number of technical problems Tuesday, including voting machines not working.
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"In this case, it is important to remind ourselves of the role of provisional ballots," he said, referring to ballots that are used to record a vote when there are questions about a given voter's eligibility.
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In Arizona, where the vast majority of voters cast ballots by mail and which allows for mail-in voting or for voters to drop off mail-in ballots at polling places, the count has taken longer.
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The state Democratic Party has defended the move by the staffers to serve as witnesses for the ballots, saying they were not party to collecting those ballots and physically submitting them on behalf of the voters.
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Absentee-by-mail ballots account for only a small fraction of voting in North Carolina — a trove of not even 100,000 votes in a state that recorded about 3.8 million ballots over all in November's election.
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As for "missing" ballots, Mr. Trump may be repeating suspicions by Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, about a box labeled "provisional ballots" that was left behind at a school that served as a polling place.
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Two years later, in Jacksonville, N.C., a D.R.E. made by UniLect lost more than 4,500 ballots when its memory became full and stopped recording; it continued to let voters cast ballots, however, instead of locking up.
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One University of Michigan study published in January found that participants missed more than 93 percent of errors on their printed ballots, although verification improved when poll workers prompted the voters to check the ballots' accuracy.
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Those laws required county election boards to reject absentee and provisional ballots unless voters had properly and completely filled out the forms that come with the ballots, including with their name, address, birth date and signature.
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Most of the Republicans who spoke to BuzzFeed News said they believed in voter fraud and election tampering, and many mentioned rumors they had heard about ballots being stolen, or people filling out blank ballots on purpose.
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According to local reports, early voting and vote-by-mail ballots are still being counted in Broward County, and ballots that were mailed in are being tallied in Palm Beach County, both of which are heavily Democratic.
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She suggests three ways to alter the vote during the counting process: spoiling ballots by adding extra marks; filling in leftover ballots; and damaging the bar-code on tally sheets that record a majority for opposition parties.
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Voters removed from databases would still be eligible to vote via provisional ballots, and adding thousands of fictional voters to the rolls would mean creating an unwieldy operation that would require filling out thousands of fake ballots.
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She was also party to a lawsuit in 2016 over a medical marijuana amendment that was missing from some absentee ballots and another suit decided in 2018 regarding when and how her staff could open absentee ballots.
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Human eyes will attempt to decipher the intent of voters that did not fill out their ballots correctly, and in certain Democratic heavy counties (Broward), those ballots are in pretty big numbers and could open an opportunity.
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At the same time, the number of ballots cast in the Arizona special election in Republican-leaning precincts was higher relative to the number of ballots cast in 2016 presidential election, than in the more Democratic precincts.
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That same week during judicial elections, over 50 percent of the ballots cast were null ballots—an apparent response from the opposition to intentionally cast null votes as a form of protest to Morales and his government.
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He also said he heard reports that some unaffiliated voters — who by law can declare an affiliation at the polls and vote in a primary — were given provisional ballots instead of the regular ballots they were due.
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Organizers said roughly two dozen Americans in Canada had cast ballots, which will be shipped to the Democrats Abroad headquarters, along with ballots from a handful of cities across the country including Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver.
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Yet last week, voters appeared to have re-elected him by a narrow margin: As of Monday, he was leading by fewer than 3,20163 votes, with nearly 18,000 ballots, including absentee and affidavit ballots, left to count.
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She told me that she watched poll workers in Detroit individually sort just a few mail-in ballots by hand every hour, when a high-quality machine could have sorted as many as 50,000 ballots per hour.
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Instead, he said he had information that thousands of legitimate voters had innocently used invalid ballots because inexperienced election officials did not realize the ballots needed to be stamped, or had not had time to do so.
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Ms. Cox, known as Miss Beverly at Harborview, said that supplying absentee ballots was a thankless, laborious task — shuttling applications and then ballots to and from City Hall for her neighbors, many of whom are physically disabled.
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He wouldn't even estimate how many more ballots could be on their way (about 15 million vote-by-mail ballots went out), or how many people will take advantage of the in-person, day-of voter registration.
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LONDON — The British government announced plans on Tuesday to crack down on voter fraud by requiring voters to show official identification at polling stations, tightening rules on absentee ballots and preventing political activists from handling absentee ballots.
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According to the Montana Secretary of State, 85033,957 voters requested absentee ballots, the termination Montana election officials use to describe pre-election voting, and, as of yesterday, 259,312 ballots have been returned and are ready for processing.
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As of late Tuesday night, more than 4.3 million vote-by-mail ballots had been returned from across the state, but that number was likely to rise by a lot as more ballots arrive in coming days.
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But there's no evidence of "electoral corruption" — the lawsuit is over how mail-in ballots are verified, and whether the same process that two counties — Maricopa and Pima — are using to verify ballots should be used statewide.
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Eight other states also have marijuana measures on their ballots this year.
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The opposition coalition estimates only 2.5 million ballots were cast on Sunday.
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Yet badly designed ballots and interminable recounts corrode confidence in other ways.
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They don't understand that it has to happen through ballots, not bullets.
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After all, the majority of white female voters cast ballots for Trump.
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Officials tossed five ballots because the voter wrote their name in cursive.
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According to the Salt Lake Tribune, "thousands" of provisional ballots remain uncounted.
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In that time, more than 1 billion ballots were cast, Levitt found.
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Hopefully students far from home signed up for vote-by-mail ballots.
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October 22019, 2018 - Voters cast ballots in the first round of elections.
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It's unclear how many disputed ballots are in the remaining 22 counties.
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The Democrats' concern is with votes cast by mail and provisional ballots.
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Voters in Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states will be casting ballots Tuesday.
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Far more voters cast ballots for Democrats than for Mr Trump's party.
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Ballots in other states also include questions aimed at reining in taxes.
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Since ballots are not distributed until early December, ahead of the Dec.
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Around a tenth of the ballots were deemed invalid by vote-counters.
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" McKoy said, "I don't know anything about McCrae having blank ballots available.
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Eventually, some precinct captains drove the paper ballots to party offices themselves.
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Which is one of many reasons why paper ballots are so critical.
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When the ballots were counted on May 15th both parties claimed victory.
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Romney match-up, roughly 13.5 million voters had cast early ballots nationwide.
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Meanwhile, 22,198 New Hampshire voters had cast their ballots for Ralph Nader.
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The county saw a disproportionately high number of voters requesting absentee ballots.
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To increase voter interest, presidential candidates were added to the 1952 ballots.
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More than 1970 million Americans won't be casting their ballots on Nov.
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Yet paper ballots are always liable to be lost, stuffed or falsified.
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Some ballots were uncompleted; the woman promised to finish filling them out.
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In contrast to previous ballots, the election passed off without serious violence.
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Okinawa officials have arranged for ballots to be cast on Saturday instead.
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Those were the final debates before voters cast ballots in Tuesday's primaries.
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Most of these states created these laws after electors cast faithless ballots.
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There are also at least 3,367 provisional ballots left to be reviewed.
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Under state law, such a margin requires a machine recount of ballots.
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Millions of people had already cast their ballots before these stories broke.
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As of late Wednesday evening, 28503,22019 voters had returned their early ballots.
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In Texas, voters could start casting ballots as early as October 22.
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Why would anyone doubt they are registering to vote and casting ballots?
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Some voters were accused, incorrectly, of casting ballots while serving felony sentences.
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" Voters explain their ballots "Remember the old Wendy's commercial: 'Where's the beef?
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As of Thursday, 307,000 Republicans ballots had been received by election officials.
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There were several invalid protest ballots including one that carried an obscenity.
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In 603, just 53.6 percent of the eligible voting population cast ballots.
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The rest of those surveyed were undecided or would annual their ballots.
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Google also allows users to see sample ballots on search result pages.
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Voters would continue casting ballots until one candidate surpasses 50 percent support.
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Thank goodness Wisconsin has paper ballots that can be physically counted again.
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Fraud through absentee ballots, though slightly more common, is still incredibly rare.
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Ultimately, CinemaScore typically collects about 29 to 24 ballots for a film.
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What happens with the outstanding mail-in ballots could really change everything.
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Are people really going to punch ballots with "Robert Ritchie" on them?
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Only if ballots remain unopened until Election Day can they be challenged.
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Both he and his wife had already cast early ballots for him.
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The Hawkeye State is the first to cast its ballots for president.
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For military and overseas absentee ballots, they can be submitted by Nov.
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But in local ballots this month the party's share fell to 54%.
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Once absentee ballots were counted the next day, a third scenario materialised.
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In the 2012 presidential election, 71% of Virginia's registered voters cast ballots.
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Yet Trump fired him before all the midterm ballots have been counted.
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Ghani and Abdullah had both claimed victory before the ballots were tallied.
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"They weren't looking to use ballots until they saw Maine," Schleifer said.
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Yet election officials regularly send absentee ballots to prisons for misdemeanor convicts.
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Democrats are touting the number of female candidates they have on ballots.
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Ballots from legitimate voters could be rejected because of errors or omissions.
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As of late Wednesday evening, 260,000 voters had returned their early ballots.
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Ballots mailed inside the U.S. must reach election offices by 7 p.m.
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Based on the distribution of provisional ballots, this burden wasn't incurred equally.
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All overseas ballots postmarked and signed by Election Day are considered valid.
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Generic ballots show Democrats with an advantage over Republicans in those elections.
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Cillizza: It's been almost two decades since hanging chads and butterfly ballots.
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Just over 40% of eligible voters actually cast ballots in that one.
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The law states that only voters themselves can mail in the ballots.
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BREAKING NEWS: Two people have been charged with distributing phony sample ballots.
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Some 26 million Americans have already cast their ballots during early voting.
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The state is also recounting ballots in the Senate race between Gov.
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Pennsylvanians at polls with broken machines cast their votes on paper ballots.
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Three states — Washington, Colorado and Oregon — automatically mail ballots to registered voters.
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On Sunday, the electoral commission began to review ballots that showed irregularities.
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There are still votes to be counted, including absentee and military ballots.
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Voters are being urged to cast their ballots for a dead man.
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Blacks cast 13 percent of the total ballots and Hispanics 2023 percent.
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Nine separate ballots were required to elect a speaker in that election.
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North Carolina requires witnesses, typically relatives or friends, to sign absentee ballots.
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Out of 603,598 ballots counted, 30,700 were for quitting the European Union.
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However, CGT union officials have rejected the ballots at the two refineries.
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Back in 2016, Dowless was accused of questionable activity involving absentee ballots.
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There are some indications of how Hispanic voters might cast their ballots.
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That's in part because ballots don't have to arrive on Election Day.
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On Election Night, all the ballots are counted for voters' first choices.
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Arizona allows voters to submit absentee ballots by mail or in person.
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She died in 1906, 14 years before women cast their first ballots.
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Soda taxes are on the ballots in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif.
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Oregon Republican and Democratic primary ballots must be received by 11 p.m.
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Voters can find when and where to drop off their ballots here.
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Voters in Florida are casting ballots in a number of key races.
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Just imagine: The 1924 Democratic convention took 103 ballots — and 17 days!
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Montana, Utah and Idaho all will have the question on their ballots.
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New York uses paper ballots, which are scanned after they're filled in.
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In 2018, people will head to the ballots for the midterm elections.
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In Water's article, photocopies of real high school debate ballots are included.
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But there are at least 3,367 provisional ballots left to be reviewed.
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Mr. Johnson is expected to be on ballots in all 50 states.
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Officials still cautioned voters not to lick the envelopes containing their ballots.
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According to the group, voters in 180 different countries cast their ballots.
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Indiana typically requires an excuse to vote via mail-in absentee ballots.
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Of those Latinos casting ballots in 2018, 4003% voted for the Democrat.
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All of that could amount to more ballots to count after Tuesday.
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Kenyans cast ballots in the second presidential election in nearly three months.
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And almost three-quarters of the voters submitted their ballots by mail.
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Return to paper ballots and ensure the vote-vetters are properly funded.
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When the ballots were tallied, Mr. Harris was ahead by 905 votes.
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Voters in 28 of Utah's 29 counties automatically get ballots at home.
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The investigators note that falsely signing ballots is also against the law.
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She said, 'No, I've got to pick up all the empty ballots.
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A strikingly large number of those ballots, 40 percent, were never returned.
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A constitutional amendment over legalizing medical marijuana was left off some ballots.
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Marijuana initiatives appeared on ballots in four states in the midterm elections.
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Voters will be best served by casting their ballots for Mr. Cuomo.
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Or follow the 19643 midterm election results as voters cast their ballots.
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While a handful of states are exempted, several offer the ballots anyway.
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In Porcupine, the precinct was down to three ballots before more arrived.
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"It's the absentee ballots that are most ripe for fraud," said Roberts.
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Likud received less than one percent of ballots cast in Modiin Illit.
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Some former felons in Florida have already cast ballots in local elections.
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Background: Over 39 days, hundreds of millions of voters cast ballots nationwide.
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More than 2 million ballots, at least, have yet to be processed.
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Scores of voters were incorrectly told they had cast ballots days earlier.
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For most of that time, ballots did not even indicate party affiliation.
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In 2016, about 1.2 million ballots were cast in the Democratic primary.
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Florida voters who requested mail-in ballots already have them in hand.
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The box did not contain ballots, but rather pens, envelopes and signs.
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Our ballots arrive early and there is plenty of time to vote.
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What voters did not know when they cast their ballots on Nov.
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More Republicans than Democrats have cast early ballots in Florida so far.
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Sixty-five more measures are expected to appear on ballots next month.
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Clinton by 22,28 votes out of more than 216 million ballots cast.
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Clinton but for millions of ballots that were illegally cast against him.
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Vermont's deadline to mail out its absentee ballots was the same day.
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In this case, it basically amounted to stealing ballots or changing votes.
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Candidates must be named on 75 percent of ballots to gain election.
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According to pollsters, that is true nationwide ahead of the parliamentary ballots.
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That ballot is scanned and they destroy [the ballots] after the election.
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Both Bushes left their presidential ballots blank when they voted last year.
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Today, North Carolina voters cast ballots in House primaries across the state.
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In January, employees began casting their ballots for and against a union.
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LOS ANGELES — Ballots for the coming Academy Awards are still being tabulated.
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The endorsements came as ballots were being mailed for the June primary.
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How voters cast their primary ballots is one big area for reform.
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Fortunately, the American people will get to decide this by casting ballots.
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This year, for the first time, ballots came with postage prepaid envelopes.
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Emerge Nevada had nine of their graduates on state ballots last November.
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Nevada Democrats used scannable paper ballots for early voting in their caucuses.
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Voters reported being denied provisional ballots and turned away at the polls.
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It is also tricky because so many ballots are cast by mail.
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Elimination of secret ballots only increases the likelihood of browbeating and coercion.
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Gore that prompted Virginia to write its guide to interpreting ambiguous ballots.
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Forty-four percent of voters cast ballots in congressional elections in 2010.
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Dowless had been suspected in years past of tampering with absentee ballots.
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In 1924, the Democrats took over 100 ballots to choose a nominee.
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What if voters begin casting ballots before the presidential nominees get switched?
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To that end, the authors also suggest states work to expand their mail-in voting programs, writing: States should automatically mail ballots to registered voters; voters should be able to mail back those ballots for free or with prepaid postage by the date of the primary; voters should also be able to drop off ballots at predesignated locations, as is the case in Arizona, or have someone else drop it off for them; and ballots should be accepted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day and received within 1913 days of the election.
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Machines more than Paper ballots No data 5 10 2003 years old Machines more than Paper ballots No data 5 10 15 years old Machines more than Paper ballots No data 5 10 15 years old Machines more than Paper ballots No data 5 10 15 years old Source: Election Data Services | By Denise Lu Surveying the long Election Day lines in Cobb County, Ga., Janine Eveler, the director of the Board of Elections, described the challenges of a record turnout for a midterm election, an unusually complicated ballot and a shortage of voting machines.
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During the 2016 election, roughly 20 percent of US voters cast ballots in counties that do not use paper ballots, primarily in the South, meaning there's virtually no way to verify the results if a cyberattack is suspected.
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A woman named Ginger Easton — who's listed as having witnessed the signing of 28 accepted absentee ballots — told news outlet WSOC that she was paid $75 to $100 by McCrae a week to pick up completed absentee ballots.
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And to cover his conduct, he made sure the ink matched on the forms, that mailed ballots were sent from a post office near the voter, and that ballots were taken to the post office in small batches.
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In the case of an audit, random ballots could be selected from the database and compared with paper ballots, providing a quick way to see if, for example, a machine error in one district was throwing off results.
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Three voters testified in sworn affidavits that they had filled out their absentee ballots and then given them to a person who came to their house and promised to deliver the ballots to state officials to be counted.
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By the time votes are cast in Florida's 2020 primary elections on March 17, 2020, 32 of Florida's 67 counties must provide official, paper or electronic, ballots in Spanish -- that includes early voting and vote-by-mail ballots.
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RELATED: Gianforte's assault charge puts Republicans in a lose-lose situation in Montana National trend for mail-in ballots So far the raw number of early ballots returned in this special election are higher than the 2014 midterm.
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The lawsuit looks to outline how overvotes -- those ballots where a voter marked multiple candidates for one office -- and undervotes -- those ballots where voters marked no one for a given office -- are counted by each county's canvassing board.
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Forcing voters to use provisional ballots: The combination of voter roll purges and strict voter ID laws (Brian Kemp himself was initially turned away from the polls on Tuesday) forced many eligible voters to use provisional paper ballots.
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"The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged," tweeted Trump on Monday morning.
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Those lawsuits, filed by Democrats and outside groups, challenged the state's process for evaluating and verifying voter signatures on mail-in ballots, as well as the state deadline for when county election offices must receive mail-in ballots.
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Likewise, thousands of absentee ballots were tossed out in Georgia this year because of mismatched voter signatures and other technical errors like missing birth dates, giving rise to lawsuits challenging the criteria under which the ballots were rejected.
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In all, 1,390 ballots were rejected in the 2014 election because they were cast out of the voter's assigned precinct — up from 49 rejected for the same reason in 2010, according to the Reuters review of provisional ballots.
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"The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged," Trump said on Twitter Monday.
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But if you receive your state ballot after you send in the backup, you should still fill it out and return it — states will count backup ballots only if they don't receive voted state ballots by the deadline.
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The coronavirus pandemic will likely require them to make different investments — in printing costs for the absentee ballots, postage and envelopes for voters, and potentially in sorting machines and other technology that helps the state count absentee ballots.
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May's order said Gwinnett County is hereby "enjoined from rejecting absentee ballots containing an error or omission relating to the absentee voter's year of birth" and has been ordered to count such ballots in this year's midterm elections.
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According to data provided to the campaign by the state party, about 833 ballots from early voting ballots on Saturday and Sunday — or 3 percent of the total — were scrapped because a voter failed to sign the ballot.
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The four officials asked the Indiana Election Commission to allow voters the option to vote by mail in the primary election, allow county clerks to mail ballots through 12 days before the primary, confirm ballots marked May 5 will be valid, make medical professionals "eligible members of traveling boards to vote nursing home and hospital patients," and allow family members to deliver absentee ballots.
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The New York Daily News first reported the errors on the ballots submitted by the first family, who moved to Washington, DC, following Trump's election but filled out absentee ballots to participate in November's New York City mayoral race.
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How to register to vote in every US state and territory Bayh has voted by absentee ballots in Indiana elections since leaving office, requesting those ballots be sent to his home and office addresses in Washington, the records show.
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" According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "red flags were raised when Harris won Bladen County with 61% of the absentee by-mail ballots cast in that county — even though the ballots came from voters who were only 19% Republican.
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Absentee ballots A federal judge has ruled that Georgia election officials must provide time for voters to fix their absentee ballots when the signature on the ballot does not match the one on file with their local election office.
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In a bid to limit mail-in ballots in the state, the Arizona Republican Party filed a lawsuit late Wednesday alleging that some county recorders have allowed voters to fix problems with their mail-in ballots after Election Day.
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Second, many of the types of ballot measures that flooded ballots a decade ago — hot-button issues like caps on taxes or same-sex marriage — either have already appeared on most state ballots or have been settled by courts.
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In Humboldt County, when the nonprofit Elections Transparency Project began verifying election results in 2008, it found a discrepancy between the scanned and tallied ballots of 197 ballots, but project representatives report that they aren't finding bigger discrepancies now.
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Once the polls close, local elections boards are typically given about a week to certify their results, a lag that allows final absentee ballots to come in and voters who cast provisional ballots to prove their identity or residency.
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Still to be counted are an unknown number of overseas absentee and military ballots as well as provisional ballots, which are offered to voters who are not listed on precinct registers or when their registration records cannot be found.
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Site at North Dakota reservation running out of ballots At least one voting site on North Dakota's Pine Ridge reservation was running low on ballots late Tuesday afternoon, and may run out soon, an inspector at the site said.
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Such ballots may appear as overvotes or undervotes — ballots on which a voters' selections either exceed or fall below the maximum number of selections allowed — in vote-counting machines and therefore may have been overlooked by county election officials.
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In order to know for sure whether a person cast two ballots, the state or the federal government would have to go through the actual ballots one by one to find the suspected voting rosters and compare the signatures.
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These issues aren't problematic when the number of ballots to be processed is small — out of Foote's tiny county of 10,000 registered voters, her staff and canvassing board generally have to recreate only about 30 ballots in this way.
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California's notoriously slow vote-counting process is a function of the sheer size of its electorate, the processes by which voters get to cast their ballots, and the rules that govern the counts once those ballots are handed in.
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Kim Strach, the board's executive director, and witnesses said that the operation involved forging signatures, completing ballots and mailing them from post offices near the voter's home, and may have involved more than 1,000 absentee ballots or request forms.
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A stream of voters marched towards the local school to cast their ballots.
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Precincts ran out of ballots and were unprepared for the relatively high turnout.
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Their answers are being kept anonymous to preserve the integrity of their ballots.
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California ballots were filled with 195 bond measures this year, totaling $41.7 billion.
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In 1880, James Garfield won the popular vote by fewer than 2,000 ballots.
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In most counties, less than 22018 percent of voters typically request absentee ballots.
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In most counties, less than 3 percent of voters typically request absentee ballots.
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Eight out of nine marijuana measures on state ballots in 2016 were successful.
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They have until September 4, when ballots start to get printed, to act.
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Be sure to have enough provisional ballots on hand to serve all voters.
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Casting ballots by email or through an Internet portal are vulnerable to hacking.
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With thousands of ballots left to count, every voter deserves to be heard.
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They are expected to announce a recount of ballots cast in the Aug.
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Republicans defend the moves as necessary to prevent the casting of fraudulent ballots.
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Voting machines need auditable paper ballots as a backup in case of meddling.
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A players needs 75% of ballots cast to earn election to the hall.
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Ballots were cast via Twitter: 51% for Team Tot, 49% for Team Tater.
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With 96 percent of ballots counted, Bolsonaro has 453 percent of the votes.
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Since 22012, education measures have made it to general election ballots 215 times.
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As to whether voters should cast their ballots for him, he wouldn't say.
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Late-arriving by-mail ballots will continue to be tallied in coming days.
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About 1,700 ballots cast in the primary were handled improperly, the probe found.
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"We don't take ballots," Harris said the campaign contractor had repeatedly promised him.
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On Tuesday, Nasralla said the electoral tribunal should review virtually all the ballots.
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Washington (CNN)On Tuesday night, the people of Indiana cast their primary ballots.
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But they can cast ballots in the nominating contests starting early next year.
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Organizers were meant to start counting ballots at 203pm, according to the rules.
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The proposition was one of three pro-death-penalty measures on state ballots.
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In theory, those delegates would remain loyal to those candidates upon subsequent ballots.
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Republicans didn't have a competitive contest, so many unaffiliated voters took Democratic ballots.
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This Tuesday, a striking number of voters will see women on their ballots.
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But an Austrian court nullified the vote, citing irregularities with mail-in ballots.
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True to its beliefs, the M5S chooses its electoral candidates in online ballots.
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Less than 41,000 of the UAW's roughly 48,000 workers with GM cast ballots.
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Pro-democracy members tore up their ballots and left the chamber in protest.
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Under the current system, put in place in 2012, voters cast two ballots.
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Human rights groups said party loyalists used the accreditations to cast multiple ballots.
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Affidavits from voters allege absentee ballots were manipulated and falsified in the race.
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Nevada law allows people already waiting when the polls close to cast ballots.
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Voters excited to mark ballots for Singapore's first female president are particularly disappointed.
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Candidates need to win 60% of ballots to be awarded the party's endorsement.
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In 22008, 24.7% of the state's electorate cast their ballots before Election Day.
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Here's the final rundown: Edgar Martinez appeared on 58.7 percent of the ballots.
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There's a reason the process for counting mail-in ballots is so slow.
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Overall, the Democrats have cast around 46,000 more ballots in Nevada than Republicans.
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The couple voted Republican on the rest of their ballots, the spokesman said.
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A further six presidential ballots are due in 2019, not least in Argentina.
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Georgia Georgia has crossed the 393 million mark in terms of ballots cast.
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In 22, 21% of the state's electorate cast their ballots before Election Day.
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Republicans had small leads earlier this month, when voters were casting absentee ballots.
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In 2000, 218% of the state's electorate cast their ballots before Election Day.
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Canvassing of returned vote-by-mail ballots is slated to begin October 24.
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Voters previously held ballots for life, whether or not they still covered baseball.
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Only 39% of people voted in London's most recent local ballots, in 2014.
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The Liberals have won previous ballots with a tough stance on illegal immigration.
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In fact, Iowa voters are allowed to begin casting early voting ballots Thursday.
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They have already counted the mail-in ballots, and the margin is 191.
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Exit polls found that Trump won 41% of the ballots cast by women.
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They are only casting ballots in a Republican primary for the first time.
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More money started rolling in almost as quickly as the ballots were counted.
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Local television reported scattered incidences of police arresting people with pre-marked ballots.
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While some areas have refused to relent, others allowed women to cast ballots.
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It's time to make change at the voting ballots and with policy changes.
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And just how easy is it for noncitizens to vote and cast ballots?
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Downed power lines caused local precincts in Tennessee to break out paper ballots.
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The 72-year-old's death took place after officials had already mailed ballots.
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To claim there were millions of ballots illegally cast is careless and absurd.
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Officers print ballots and select polling locations to fit local needs and languages.
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The secretary of state's office could not say how many uncounted ballots remain.
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