ballot harvesting
Posted May 20, 2022, 11:42 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Dinesh D’Souza told a conservative podcast that “2000 Mules,” his film making flawed and faulty claims about election fraud in 2020, directly led the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office to open up an investigation — but the sheriff says that’s simply not true. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 21, 2021, 6:37 am
Diannie Chavez
/Cronkite News
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez urged a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to support the Native American Voting Rights Act, which would set minimum federal requirements for voting on tribal lands, including early voting, mail-in balloting, ballot collecting and ID standards.... Read more»
Posted Sep 17, 2021, 6:58 am
Nancy Marie Spears
/Gaylord News
Some people with stakes in Indigenous voter rights are looking to the Native American Voting Rights Act to help address physical and cultural voting and election problems for tribal members.... Read more»
Posted Aug 18, 2021, 10:23 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Several Arizona Republican lawmakers and a conservative advocacy group want to give voters an opportunity to impose a new identification requirement for early ballots, prompted in part by concerns that voters lack trust in elections after nearly a year of baseless fraud claims.... Read more»
Posted Jul 2, 2021, 12:06 pm
Brooke Newman
/Cronkite News
The Supreme Court Thursday rejected claims that Arizona’s ballot-harvesting and out-of-precinct election rules discriminate against minority voters, a ruling that one critic said “takes a sledgehammer” to equal voting protections. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 24, 2020, 10:18 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Two Yuma County women were indicted for turning in four ballots in the August primary as, for the first time, Arizona is prosecuting someone under a 2016 law banning collection of early ballots — a practice dubbed "ballot harvesting" by opponents.... Read more»
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Posted Oct 5, 2020, 1:44 pm
Calah Schlabach
/Cronkite News
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would hear Arizona’s defense of two election laws, on ballot-collecting and out-of-precinct voting, that were struck down by a lower court earlier this year as racially discriminatory.... Read more»
Posted Oct 2, 2020, 1:13 pm
Jack Rodgers
/Courthouse News Service
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over the constitutionality of an Arizona law restricting who can deliver ballots for voters unable to leave their homes during an election.... Read more»
Posted Mar 23, 2020, 10:00 am
Matt Vasilogambros
/Stateline
Election officials in states with restrictive absentee requirements are looking for ways to allow as many voters as possible to use absentee ballots, a safer alternative to in-person voting in a global pandemic. I... Read more»
Posted Feb 12, 2020, 10:56 am
McKenzie Sadeghi
/Cronkite News
Voting barriers for Native Americans have always existed, but polling cutbacks, discriminatory voter ID laws and lack of funding for elections are making things worse, advocates told a House panel Tuesday. ... Read more»