All posts tagged "Ballots"

National Guard officials offered an explanation Friday after video of troops standing near a Washington, D.C., ballot drop box sparked alarm.

The troops, the officials say, were simply taking a break during a patrol.

Two Guard officials told The Washington Post that the soldiers filmed Thursday in Foggy Bottom were part of a larger patrol and were not assigned to guard the box. Both spoke on condition of anonymity....

A former Utah mail carrier dumped about 300 primary ballots in a church dumpster to "lighten his workload," federal prosecutors said.

According to a detention filing, former Utah postman Damon Matai Seei was charged with a single count of secretion, destruction, and delay of mail.

Prosecutors say Seei was covering a colleague's route in Eagle Mountain, Utah, on June 3 when he was "entrusted with delivering mail to at least 300 persons" in the area. That mail included advertisements and hundreds of ballots meant for voters in the state's June 23 primary election....

The U.S. Postal Service has halted work on a computer system central to President Donald Trump's effort to limit mail-in voting.

Postmaster General David Steiner confirmed the stoppage Thursday in an interview with the Associated Press, just days after the Supreme Court rejected the president's executive order for this year's midterms.

"There's an injunction so we're not doing anything," Steiner told the AP....

A Republican election expert slammed one of the top MAGA demands as impossible and "asinine in the extreme."

In a recent interview, Stephen Richer, the former Maricopa County recorder and a fellow at the Cato Institute, tore apart the idea of hand counting ballots.

Legal reporter Adam Klasfeld asked Richer if the "loudly demanded" idea from election denialists would "do anything to make elections operate faster or more accurately?"...

A legal scholar and law professor roasted a judge appointed by President Donald Trump, referring to his "contortionist opinion" the Supreme Court is reviewing over mail-in ballots as "bonkers."

Richard L. Hasen skewered the 5th Circuit opinion written by Andrew Oldham in an analysis piece for Slate published Tuesday. Hasen said the judge appears to want Trump's attention — and is auditioning to be a future high court justice.

Hasen warned the case may disappoint Trump by failing to deliver the result he sought. ...

The scene is straight from a discount bin spy novel.

A black SUV arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to collect Sabrina Keliikoa, a QAnon adherent and supervisor at the facility’s FedEx air freight terminal.

Keliikoa was scared out of her wits. ...