Mail-in Voting

Republican activists who believe the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump have crafted a plan that, in their telling, will thwart cheating in this year’s midterm elections.

In Pennsylvania, where GOP primaries for governor and U.S. Senate are drawing national attention, officials in Republican-leaning Lancaster County said the company that printed its mailed ballots included the wrong ID code.

The number of rejected mail ballots in Texas soared to nearly 13% across most counties in the nation’s first election of 2022

A federal judge has handed Texas’ elections overhaul a partial defeat days ahead of 2022′s first primary.

The Indiana House approved along party lines Monday a Republican-backed proposal that would require voters who request mail-in ballots to swear under possible penalty of perjury that they won’t be able to vote in person at any time during the 28 days before Election Day.

Voting laws vary among all 50 states, and there was no simple tool to track all those differences. So NBCLX built one. Storyteller Peter Hull explains Project Democracy and the ballot access map, and we review some of the most striking differences in voting rights from Texas to Maine, with the help of Morning Consult senior reporter Eli Yokley.

The U.S. Census says more than two-thirds of U.S. citizens of the voting age population cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential election

Florida Republicans have moved to rewrite a litany of rules that they said would enhance the integrity of future elections.

A surge of absentee ballots during last year’s election led to concerns that a larger percentage of mailed ballots could be rejected for arriving past the deadline, not having a voter’s signature or some other reason

A new study finds the expansion of mail voting did not benefit Democrats or increase turnout

Atlanta-area mail delays, which Postmaster Louis DeJoy promised would improve following a national slowdown last summer, remain far below US Postal Service standards, threatening to disenfranchise thousands of legal voters who mailed in ballots in a pair of pivotal U.S. Senate runoffs this week.

If a signature on a ballot doesn’t perfectly match the signature on the state’s voter roll – should that mail ballot count? And do elections offices even have experts qualified to determine if a signature is mismatched?

More than 100,000 legit voters likely had their legit ballots rejected this fall for messy signatures – and some states are pushing to increase those numbers next election. So NBCLX’s Noah Pransky explains why it’s so important we push our elected officials to carefully balance voter protections with voter fraud protections.

A Delaware County man is accused of illegally voting for President Donald Trump under the names of his deceased mother and deceased mother-in-law.

Because more than half the states – including most of the key battlegrounds – don’t provide a grace period for ballots that arrive after Election Day, it is likely 25,000-50,000 ballots nationwide were ultimately rejected because of USPS problems.

While U.S. Postal Service workers likely delivered more than 99.9% of the country’s mail ballots in time to be counted this year, it also appears that tens of thousands were disenfranchised by postal delays.

The protests came as the president insisted without evidence that there were major problems with the voting and the ballot counting, especially with mail-in votes, and as Republicans filed suit in various states over the election.

Gov. Tom Wolf spoke at a press conference on Wednesday to condemn the lawsuit filed against the state of Pennsylvania and assure voters that all ballots would be counted.

President Trump addressed supporters from the White House after 2 a.m., and falsely claimed victory over Joe Biden with millions of crucial swing state votes yet to be counted. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker runs through a number of claims Trump made in his speech to separate fact from fiction.

Voters in the U.S. are marking the end of a fraught U.S. election season at the polls. They’re casting the last of what will likely be a record-setting number of ballots. At least 101.9 million people voted early, meaning turnout is expected to reach record levels despite a global pandemic that has upended long-established election procedures and triggered hundreds of...