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788 American Elections (and Counting) Ended in Ties, Close Results
“Please, God, please – let it be a landslide.” – Election Administrator’s Prayer November 2022 –...
4 Things to Dislike about Ranked Choice Voting
RCV Converts Elections into a Consensus-Gathering Exercise October 2022 – Many Americans first...
Manchin’s H.R. 1/S. 1 Compromise Bill Threatens West Virginia’s Absentee Ballot System
15 Other States Mirror WV’s System SEPTEMBER 2021 – West Virginia briefly experimented with expanded mail voting during the 2020 primary season by choosing to send an absentee ballot application to every registered voter ahead of the June 9 contests. In the aftermath,...
440K Mail Ballots Went Missing or Undeliverable amid 81K Vote Margin of Victory in PA 2020 Presidential
SEPTEMBER 2021 – Pennsylvania lawmakers did not wait for COVID-19 to inject uncertainty in their elections by experimenting with expanded mail voting. In Fall 2019, the Commonwealth created a no-excuse absentee system with options for permanent mail voting. It also...
2020: Biden Won Georgia by 11K Votes. 27K Mail Ballots Bounced Off Bad Addresses.
Another 217K Mail Ballots Are Unaccounted SEPTEMBER 2021 – While most places broke records with total amounts of ballots in the mail, Georgia’s 2020 count was slightly less than what it circulated in 2012. Yet in 2020, the Peach State broke records for undeliverable...
83K Mail Ballots Went Missing or Undeliverable amid 20K Vote Margin of Victory in WI 2020 Presidential
AUGUST 2021 – Unlike other states its size with an influence in national politics, Wisconsin could brag about the fact that its counts of undeliverable and “unknown” mail ballots never inundated the margin of victory for a statewide candidate—until the 2020 Election....
Nearly 15 Million Mail Ballots Went Unaccounted for in 2020 Election
43 Million over Past Decade AUGUST 2021 -- In the face of a pandemic, states from across the nation hastily pushed traditionally in-person voters to mail ballots while, at the same time, trying to learn how to even administer such a scenario. Experts at PILF warned...
H.R. 4: Personnel is Policy
July 2021 -- Personnel is policy. Every time you hear about the need to pass H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, remember: Congress isn’t just passing a new set of rules—it is empowering scores of DOJ Civil Rights Division (“CRT”) Voting Section...