https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/22/ohio-enacts-commonsense-law-requiring-all-mail-ballots-be-returned-by-election-day/
Dec 22, 2025 - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine 'reluctantly' signed legislation on Friday that requires all mail-in ballots to be received by the end of Election Day.
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https://signalohio.org/ohio-republicans-vote-to-end-post-election-grace-period-for-mail-ballots-under-pressure-from-trump-administration/
Nov 20, 2025 - State law has long counted ballots arriving within four days after Election Day, a window the bill would close.
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https://www.avclub.com/best-tv-2025-the-ballots
Dec 15, 2025 - See the individual voting lists for A.V. Club staffers and contributors.
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https://www.utahinvestigative.org/how-a-little-noticed-law-opened-the-door-to-political-gamesmanship-on-utah-ballots/
Feb 4, 2025 - The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. Utah’s 2024 ballot initiative debacle...
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https://www.royalsreview.com/general/92443/royals-review-writers-provide-their-baseball-hall-of-fame-ballots?utm_source=bleacherreport&utm_medium=referral
Jan 12, 2026 - Who would you vote into the Hall of Fame?
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-focus-new-york-city-ballots-do-not-show-proof-of-election-fraud
Candidates may appear more than once on ballots in the state if they are nominated by multiple political parties — a practice called fusion voting.
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https://www.ibtimes.com.au/oscar-voters-required-view-all-films-before-casting-ballots-1858117
Apr 22, 2025 - Oscar voters will be required to demonstrate that they have watched all the films in each category before they cast their final ballots, the Academy of Motion...
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https://signalohio.org/ohio-republicans-poised-to-end-grace-period-for-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day/
Nov 19, 2025 - Ohio currently accepts mail ballots that arrive within four days after Election Day, as long as they have a pre-Election Day postmark.
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https://arlhist.org/from-barriers-to-ballots/
Aug 16, 2025 - Now on view at the Arlington Historical Museum, From Barriers to Ballots explores the long and ongoing struggle for voting rights in Virginia.
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https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-crusade-mail-ballots-isnt-republicans-favors-rcna225844
Nov 13, 2025 - Republican officials want their party's voters to cast their ballots through the mail. Donald Trump's weird crusade is stepping all over his...
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https://www.nycvotes.org/how-ranked-choice-ballots-are-counted/
See how ballots are counted in a ranked choice voting election--using some of NYC's favorite wild animals!
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https://www.avclub.com/best-games-2025-ballots
Dec 18, 2025 - Find out how The A.V. Club's games editors and writers fit the overwhelming deluge of games released this year into a single top 25 list.
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https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/10/08/amazon-maine-ballots/?collection=472030
Photos purportedly showing the alleged Amazon package included stacks of ballots next to regular items such as paper plates and a bag of rice.
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https://www.timesleader.com/opinion/1728979/editorial-from-paper-ballots-to-computerized-voting-its-been-quite-the-30-year-journey
<p>Someone could — and should —write a book about Luzerne County’s complicated journey from the mechanical voting machines through...
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https://publicinterestlegal.org/in-the-news/as-noncitizens-cast-ballots-motor-voter-law-needs-reform/
Aug 30, 2023 - As PILF rightly argued, the Motor Voter law needs to be modified and updated. Its guarantees for greater transparency should be kept or even strengthened, a ...
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https://www.avclub.com/best-films-2025-ballots
Dec 17, 2025 - The best films of 2025 have been selected, now read on to see how our individual critics voted on their ballots.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/sharpies-bleeding-through-ballots-will-not-impact-your-vote/
Nov 4, 2020 - Voters are concerned their votes will not be valid in the event of a Sharpie bleed through incident.
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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/strike-ballots-open-four-scottish-universities-over-job-losses
Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, Stirling and Strathclyde threatened with industrial action as Scottish government’s review of higher education funding begins
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https://amecorg.com/2025/10/amec-member-ballots-open-elect-your-2026-2027-board-representatives/
Oct 13, 2025 - Participate in the Elections to the 2026 - 2027 AMEC Board of Directors. Ballots are open until October 22, 2025.
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https://pinjnews.org/book-bans-have-reached-greater-pittsburghs-boardrooms-and-ballots/
Nov 1, 2023 - Colin Williams Clashes around censorship have pitted parents against educators, and against each other, while outside funding raises the stakes. This article...
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https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-proposition-50-special-election-ballots-mailed-out/?utm_content=349665629&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-752608758476468224
Sep 29, 2025 - Ballots for California's special election on Proposition 50 will be mailed out to voters beginning next Monday.
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https://boltsmag.org/ohio-ends-grace-periods-for-mail-ballots/
Dec 24, 2025 - Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy...
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https://www.wispolitics.com/2025/panelist-press-for-early-processing-of-absentee-ballots/
Jun 27, 2025 - Panelists at a WisPolitics event on elections administration voiced support for allowing early processing of absentee ballots in hopes of speeding election...
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https://assamtribune.com/north-east/arunachal-sec-replaces-postal-ballots-with-on-the-spot-voting-for-duty-staff-1599383
For the first time in Arunachal Pradesh, the State Election Commission has introduced an on-the-spot voting facility for personnel on election duty in...
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https://www.hindustantimes.com/photos/news/nyc-mayoral-race-in-photos-voters-cast-ballots-as-mamdani-takes-on-cuomo-101762281760712.html
Nov 5, 2025 - Voters line up to cast their ballots as polls in the NYC mayoral race opened on Tuesday
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-republicans-counties-are-pushing-count-ballots-hand-years-primar-rcna239342
Nov 19, 2025 - Critics warn the move, which requires more time, money and staffers, could lead to confusion, errors and delayed results in key contests in Texas in March.
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https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-rep-stumbles-case-mail-ballots-suggests-s-talked-dead-people-rcna226401
Nov 13, 2025 - Either Jeff Van Drew misspoke when he said he’s spoken to “large numbers” of people who’ve “passed away,” or he was pitching an M. Night Shyamalan...
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https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/11/bruce-harrell-can-still-lose-the-seattle-mayoral-race-if-late-ballots-break-significantly-for-katie-wilson.html
Nov 8, 2025 - Those who aren't steeped in Emerald City politics might look at the initial results for Mayor of Seattle and conclude the incumbent has won reelection....
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https://keepourrepublic.org/what-we-do/initiatives/ballots-battlegrounds/
Oct 17, 2025 - Top election officials from key battleground states briefed the media on election safeguards, ballot security, and public trust in 2024.
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https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/did-maricopa-county-recorder-reject-thousands-legitimate-ballots-40622388/
Nov 20, 2025 - The rate of ballots rejected for bad signatures jumped in Maricopa County's Nov. 4 election, and MAGA Recorder Justin Heap's processes might be to...
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https://verifiedvoting.org/publication/paper-ballots-and-audits-the-bedrock-of-secure-elections/
Why should your state or jurisdiction consider adopting or improving your post-election audit?
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https://wondercave.co/casestudy/how-two-way-conversation-helped-boost-mail-in-ballots/
Sep 22, 2025 - In January, a coalition of PACs enlisted the help of one of Wonder Cave’s clients to boost mail-in ballot numbers in Pennsylvania using Two-Way Conversation.
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https://racketmn.com/picked-to-click-2025-the-complete-ballots
Here's who voted in Picked to Click—and how.
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https://www.guernicamag.com/ballots-and-bloodshed-the-militarization-of-local-politics-in-south-africa/
Political violence in the province of KwaZulu-Natal reveals a bloody history still haunting the country’s democracy.
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https://www.pulse.ug/story/voters-can-cast-ballots-without-national-id-ec-2026010107280443520
Jan 8, 2026 - The Electoral Commission has clarified that Ugandans can vote in the 2026 elections without a National ID or voter location slip as long as their names are on...
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https://dailymontanan.com/2025/11/26/new-voting-law-cost-counties-more-money-added-work-for-staff-blocked-ballots/
Nov 26, 2025 - A new election law seems to have cost more money, more staff time and blocked some ballots from being counted.
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https://theconversation.com/1-in-5-bolivians-spoiled-their-ballots-a-sign-of-voter-dissatisfaction-as-nation-tips-to-the-right-263166
For the first time since returning to democracy, Bolivia’s presidential election heads to a runoff. But no left-wing candidate made it past the first round.
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https://www.ksl.com/article/51418508/chileans-in-utah-will-be-among-the-voters-casting-ballots-in-chiles-presidential-election
Dec 13, 2025 - Chileans living in Utah will be among the voters heading to the polls Sunday to cast ballots in the South American nation's presidential election.
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https://www.vashonbeachcomber.com/news/with-few-ballots-left-to-count-local-races-are-decided/
Nov 18, 2025 - With only a handful of ballots left to count in the Nov. 4 election, the island’s two contested Vashon Health Care District races have now been decided.
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https://deadline.com/2026/01/oscar-nomination-ballots-final-hours-notes-on-the-season-1236685426/
Jan 17, 2026 - The Notes On The Season column chronicles last minute campaigning as Oscar ballots are now due and voters are scrambling to see movies.
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https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2021/1130/Libya-elections-Can-internal-conflict-move-from-bullets-to-ballots
Dec 1, 2021 - Should accountability for misdeeds be sacrificed on behalf of national unity? That’s a question Libya is grappling with in an election with few rules.
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https://boltsmag.org/colorado-language-protections-in-voting-rights-act/
Jun 13, 2025 - Some 30 years ago, volunteers with Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign knocked on Patty Hernandez’s door in Denver. Hernandez, a U.S.-born citizen who was...
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https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/blog/fight-over-counting-mail-in-ballots-after-election-day-will-go-before-supreme-court/2476615/
Nov 12, 2025 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday took up a Republican-backed challenge to counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day.
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https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-12-03-trump-urges-nationwide-shift-to-paper-ballots.html
President Donald Trump urges Republican governors to mandate all-paper voting systems, citing Texas as a successful model for election integrity. Trump...
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https://hiphopcaucus.org/campaigns/barz-and-ballots/
Nov 13, 2025 - Barz & Ballots brings together poets, lyricists, musicians, comedians, and everyone who loves them to share our art, truth, and advocacy.
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https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/11/chester-county-pennsylvania-accept-pollbook-provisional-ballot-problem-2025-election-elections/
Nov 18, 2025 - An investigator is still reviewing why third-party and independent voters were left off Chester County’s pollbooks on Nov 4.
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https://boltsmag.org/whats-on-your-local-ballots-your-questions-answered/
Oct 12, 2024 - Bolts responds to six reader questions about what’s happening downballot.
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https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-democracy/inheritance-tax-civic-duty-initiatives-headed-for-defeat-as-swiss-cast-ballots/90522356
Nov 30, 2025 - Projections on Sunday suggest voters will reject a new tax on the super-rich and an idea for all citizens to perform civic duty.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-voters-jefferson-griffin-supreme-court-challenge
Jan 30, 2025 - A Republican judge is trying to overturn his election loss by challenging more than 60,000 ballots. These are some of those voters’ stories.
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https://www.mapresearch.org/2025-direct-democracy-report
This report from MAP examines how direct democracy works across the states and the ways in which state legislatures are trying to restrict these processes.
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https://stluciatimes.com/175795/2025/11/northern-frontline-workers-cast-early-ballots-at-gros-islet-fire-station/
Nov 28, 2025 - Frontline workers from the northernmost constituencies of Gros Islet, Babonneau, and Castries North turned out early Friday morning to cast their ballots at...
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https://citizenportal.ai/articles/6761038/Middlesex-County/New-Jersey/Middlesex-board-accepts-challenge-to-review-900-ballots-flagged-by-outofstate-matches
The Middlesex County Board of Elections voted on Nov. 5 to accept a challenge asking staff to review a list of ballots flagged by a private data tool as...
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https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/feb/01/claim-about-serial-numbers-ballots-misguided/
A Facebook post suggests putting a serial number on every ballot, but many elections experts suggested it would cause mo
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https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2025/11/29/ec-begins-opening-postal-ballots-for-17th-sabah-state-election/200140
KOTA KINABALU, Nov 29 — The Election Commission (EC) has begun the process of opening postal ballot envelopes for the 17th Sabah State Election at several...
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