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ABC News: Mail-in voting delays in primary cause Pennsylvania to sound alarm about November
Suzanne Almeida, the interim director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, said adding more secure ballot drop boxes would be an easy and cheap way for counties and local election officials to increase accessibility. “Many of these reforms that we're looking at are systemic and require and require significant additional funding,” Almeida said. “It's a culture shift in Pennsylvania, as this is the first election we've ever voted by mail by these numbers. “Folks need to understand that it's better to get it right than to get it quick. That we're just not going to see the kind of results on election night, when we see 2 million absentee ballots. And that's okay, that it's not evidence of shenanigans,” Almeida said.
Found in: Common Cause
Voting Rights Groups Praise House Elections Legislation That Will Protect Voters
Found in: Common Cause Massachusetts
STATEMENT: House Elections Legislation Protects Voters, Says Voting Rights Group
Found in: Common Cause Massachusetts
PBS News Hour: Mail-in voting amid pandemic and protests previews challenges for November election
“I am trying to see today as an opportunity to show the cracks in the system that we can fix before November,” said Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections for voting rights group Common Cause. Albert said there is concern that in the November election, people who request absentee ballots will not receive them, and there will be fewer polling places as counties consolidate them in response to the pandemic. “There needs to be a rational level of consolidation that ensures that communities who especially have not used vote by mail in the past or cannot use vote by mail — such as disabled communities or people without addresses, homeless, transient — that there are enough polling locations to serve those people,” Albert said.
Found in: Common Cause
For Immediate Release: Election Laws Committee Legislation Helps Protect Voters, Says Voting Rights Group; Urges Four Changes
Found in: Common Cause Massachusetts
Colorado's Mail-In Voting System in National Spotlight
Amanda Gonzalez, executive director of Colorado Common Cause, says the state's system shows that when voters can mail in ballots, cast ballots at any center in their county and drop ballots off before or after work, people want to vote. "When they have several weeks of early voting available, it's not just one day," she points out. "They participate in our system. And when they turn in their ballots, we get better policies, we get more accountable politicians, and that's good for all of us."
Found in: Colorado Common Cause
Voting in a pandemic could be safer in NC thanks to a rare bipartisan bill
“This bill is a positive step toward ensuring every eligible North Carolina voter is able to safely and securely cast a ballot in this year’s elections,” said Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause North Carolina and a veteran of voting battles.
Found in: Common Cause North Carolina
PennLive/The Patriot News: An Election Day like never before: Mail-in balloting, new voting machines, multi-day counts for Pa.'s primary
“We know that there are going to be issues on June 2nd,” said Suzanne Almeida, interim executive director of Common Cause PA, citing instances in which county offices have sent out duplicate mail-in ballots, or even the wrong political party’s primary ballot; the massive consolidation of polling places in places like Philadelphia; and the use of new machines in many places. “The way that we’re looking at this is really that we we will have a lot of clarity after June 2nd about what needs to be fixed for November," Almeida said. "And we’re hoping we can come up with some really clear, practical solutions... to make sure that no voter is disenfranchised in November.”
Found in: Common Cause
Radio Boston: Is Mail-In Voting Coming To Massachusetts?
"A number of states, including Massachusetts, are looking at using mail-in voting for the 2020 election. Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin has said he wants to start printing ballots for fall elections as soon as June 2. That means a decision on mail-in voting needs to be made quickly."
Found in: Common Cause Massachusetts
Bipartisan bill aims to make voting amid coronavirus pandemic safer and more accessible
As concerns about the coronavirus persist, it's forcing the North Carolina General Assembly to take a closer look at changes to make voting safer and accessible to voters for the election in November.