Effort to recruit poll workers relaunches amid fears of shortage
In response to a worrying shortage of election workers for this year’s upcoming midterms, an alliance of civic organizations and major businesses are relaunching their “Power the Polls” program, first implemented to recruit election workers in 2020. Power the Polls was co-founded and remains backed by major corporations such as Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, and Old Navy. Supply-chain issues, an increase in violent threats to poll workers, and a tight labor market are among the many factors threatening to close down polling places around the
How undated ballots could affect Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate race and voters’ rights
The razor-thin Pennsylvania recount between GOP Senate hopefuls Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick has been further complicated by an ongoing legal dispute that began with the 2020 election: whether mail-in ballots can be counted if a voter has neglected to enter the date of their signature. Currently, Dr. Mehmet Oz leads his opponent for the Republican Senate nomination by less than 1,000 votes, and the legitimacy of approximately 860 mail-in ballots remains in dispute because they lack a hand-written date. In a conflict headed
Scott paves way for ranked choice voting in Burlington council elections
By permitting the Vermont State Legislature to pass and enact a “charter change bill” without his signature, Governor Phil Scott has cleared the way for the city of Burlington to re-adopt a ranked-choice voting system. In an official letter to legislators, the Governor expressed skepticism towards the practice and said he was only permitting the change because it would apply exclusively to Burlington’s elections for its city council. The city had previously adopted the practice from 2005 to 2010, and had allowed the voting
Ballot fiasco delays results in Oregon, vote-by-mail pioneer
An unexpected printing problem on mail-in ballots for Clackamas County, Oregon is causing significant delays in tallying election results for the state’s recent primaries. Approximately 60,000 ballots - about two-thirds of the county’s ballots returned so far - have blurred barcodes which render them unreadable to voting machines. The painstaking manual recounts by local election workers, undertaken with bipartisan supervision, may delay an announcement of results until they must be certified on June 13th. While Oregon has successfully employed an all mail-in ballot system
REVEALED: Swiss-born billionaire who became mega-donor of ‘dark money’ to Democratic causes may have broken the law because he’s ‘NOT a US citizen or resident’, lawsuit claims
Americans for Public Trust, a right-leaning watchdog group, has filed suit against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for failing to investigate whether Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss’s political donations violated a US law against campaign contributions from foreign nationals. Wyss’s philanthropic organizations maintain that his donations have been directed exclusively towards political causes and their advocates, not to candidates or political action committees. Americans for Public Trust is challenging this distinction in its lawsuit. Visit The Daily Mail to learn moreImage Credit: Oceana(CC BY 3.0)