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Up Next. The Fulcrum. Alabama Latest Target of Lawsuit Seeking to Ease Election Rules. June 1, 2020. This article was first published on. The Fulcrum. The League of Women Voters has sued Alabama to ease the rules governing absentee ballots during the…

unconstitutional and against federal law the limited available reasons for voting at home in Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee and the complex processes required to fill out and return those absentee ballots. South Carolina and Tennessee now…

as a result of the pandemic. Seventeen states received a B grade, and the rest scored lower. Washington, which has been conducting primarily vote-by-mail elections since 2011, was the only state to receive a perfect score of 22. Alabama, on the other hand…

during the pandemic won victories Monday in three states, two of them solid blue but one of them reliably red. The top elections official in Alabama, a Republican, decreed that fear of the coronavirus would be reason enough to vote absentee for president…

solution: the ranked-choice voting ballot, as cast by thousands of voters last year in primaries in Alabama, Arkansas and South Carolina and in general elections in Mississippi and, yes, Louisiana. Louisiana pioneered the process for military voters to…

of eight states that have ended the practice in the past decade, most recently. Utah in March. That leaves Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Oklahoma and South Carolina as the only places that will permit one-and-done balloting this fall. The argument…

bright red now on the Electoral College map: Wyoming (83 percent). Arkansas (83 percent). New Hampshire (82 percent). Maine (82 percent). Alabama (81 percent). Massachusetts (80 percent). West Virginia (80 percent). Utah (78 percent). Mississippi (78 percent…

Massachusetts. along with reliably red. Alabama. and. Missouri. Seven states have made other easements to their election plans. Minnesota. residents may now provide, and receive, an unlimited amount of help from others when voting absentee. Mississippi…

identification with their ballot. These states are Alabama, Alaska, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin require a witness. The fact that each state has its own rules and these rules are still…

more accessible, including New York, Kentucky, and Alabama. Last week, Massachusetts became the first of these states to act to make vote-by-mail accessible to all voters in November. Unless other states follow suit soon, voters will be forced to choose…