But Hasen has also shown that these laws certainly do exclude valid voters, while failing to prevent the fraud they purport to aim at (and as Hasen notes, the big tell that the GOP is dishonest about these matters is their lack of concern for lax rules concerning absentee voting, where more of the "right" kind of people tend to vote).
In 2016, the state board investigated similar concerns about absentee ballots there and referred the case to the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District.
It was determined that there was no basis to support the allegations of election fraud concerning these absentee ballots.
Going Forward There is concern about absentee landlords' illegal conversions of multifamily homes into single-room-occupancy boarding houses.
The principal concern involves absentee ballot harvesting — when a ballot is collected and mailed by someone who is not the voter or, in some instances, a close relative — and how Mr. Dowless and his associates may have relied on the tactic during their work for Mr. Harris.
Specifically, the Democrats were concerned about absentee ballots in the largely rural Bladen County, where 7.5percentt of voters asked for absentee ballots, the Observer reported.
There are other practical concerns — while the absentee rates do not affect how much money a school receives, state law requires that money be withheld from schools that do not meet for 180 days of instruction, which is likely to happen at schools closed for several days.
Bagatelos was also concerned about an absentee ballot that Reviczky rejected because of a discrepancy in the voter's signature.
Finally, Judd said he was concerned by reports that absentee ballots were not handled consistently across the state, with some jurisdictions counting those that did not bear the voter's signature and others not.
As far as the marine insurance industry is concerned, you're an "absentee" owner if you live in a state other than the one where you keep the boat, and that means more cost for less coverage, said Scott Croft, assistant vice president for public relations of the Boat Owners Association of the United States, known as BoatU.S.
