Minnesota Write-In Votes Disappeared Along With Their Candidates
MINNESOTA - December 12, 2018 Most states require write-in candidates for higher offices to register before or after an election to have their votes counted, including Minnesota. St. Louis County Clerk Phil Chapman said no write-in candidates filed to have their votes counted for county attorney, county sheriff, and county commission board seats or for the 8th District Congressional race. Any write-in candidate for federal, state, judicial or county office in Minnesota must submit a simple form to the Minnesota Secretary of State at least a week before the general elect...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Minnesota
MINNESOTA - December 11, 2018 Jeff Johnson's campaign team in Minnesota has undergone scrutiny after several reports of telephone ads about the November 6 election that happened a little less than a week before the elections. A Kasson resident received a voicemail November 3 that said: "Hi, this is Nathan and I am calling to remind you to turn in your mail-in ballot and to ask for your vote for Jeff Johnson to be our next Governor. Since you live in a vote by mail only precinct, you should have received a ballot already. Mailing it in as soon as possible will make a huge...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Michigan
MICHIGAN – December 10, 2018 Metro Detroit couldn’t shake its reputation for problematic elections. Problems at the polls in Detroit popped up sporadically, leaving some voters waiting in line for more than an hour while others left altogether, Detroit Free Press reported. Several would-be voters in Redford Township did not stay Tuesday morning while the lone voting machine at Pierce Middle School was being fixed. Rex Nagy, a retired voter in Redford Township, said that his polling place at Pierce Middle School was relying on just one broken voting machine that he was t...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Maryland
MARYLAND – December 10, 2018 Maryland is famous for its ghost polling stations, of which there are 54--51 scattered across ten counties, plus 3 in Baltimore. These places are called ghosts because there are no voters, or they are in such small numbers that it is much easier for the authorities to register a voter at a different address. Most of Maryland's ghost precincts were created as a result of the last redistricting when political boundaries for legislative, congressional and councilmanic districts were redrawn based on population data from the 2010 U.S. Census. Af...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Massachusetts
MASSACHUSETTS – December 7, 2018 The Massachusetts elections website has seen an increase in attempted intrusions, Bill Galvin, the state's elections chief, told reporters the day before voters head to the polls for the 2018 midterm election, MassLive reported. The attempted intrusions, which Galvin described as amateurish, are directed at parts of the site where voters can look up their polling location, whether they're registered and a way to track their ballot. They were more likely people looking for personal data to use for opening credit cards. Galvin downplayed...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Maine
MAINE – December 7, 2018 About 150 absentee ballots submitted by Colby College students using addresses on Mayflower Hill Drive are being challenged on grounds that the addresses don’t meet voter registration requirements, the Portland Press Herald reported. A group of registered voters in Waterville has argued that the addresses – which include a four-digit student number but don’t reflect where exactly a student lives – could cause confusion over which wards and districts a student should be voting in. In the past, a majority of students lived on campus at Mayflower H...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Louisiana
LOUISIANA – December 1, 2018 Some polling stations in Louisiana were not ready to receive people, in particular, the site at a school on Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans, where officials could not solve the problem of accessibility for people with disabilities. According to chief electoral officer Arthur Morella, the staff received several phone calls on Election Day with requests to install a ramp for the disabled, however, nothing was done until the middle of the day. Morrell reached out to the charter school's board after he received calls from disabled voters who wer...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Kentucky
KENTUCKY – November 24, 2018 The shortage of poll workers could not be resolved in Kentucky, even though the problem was announced a few days before Election Day. According to official data, there were about 15,000 people working, which was not enough to perform at the appropriate level. Consequently, there were long lines and a lack of ballots, with no one to print them. The lack of people was due to a lack of wages, although it was officially stated that workers would receive from $100 to $300 for a 13-hour day. Apparently not many were interested in such a salary, and...
Iowa Found a Way to Keep Felons From Voting But Problems Remain
IOWA - November 22, 2018 Iowa is one of three states, along with Kentucky and Florida, that permanently disenfranchises people with felony convictions unless they complete the state's prohibitive restoration process and receive approval to vote from the state government. But in Florida, the state's felon disenfranchisement law could soon change—voters weighed in on a constitutional amendment on their election ballots that would restore voting rights to 1.4 million Florida residents who have completed their sentences. Nationwide, some 6.2 million citizens cannot vote or...