In Broward County, where thousands of people have complained that their absentee ballots never arrived in the mail, elections officials said Friday that about 9,000 replacement ballots had been mailed out on Thursday and 3,000 more would go out on Friday, mostly to Democratic voters.
A deluge of last-minute ballots in Oregon's vote-by-mail election process has delayed the declaration of a winner in the governor's race.
"To try to put together your first vote-by-mail election in four to six weeks without established policies and infrastructure would be a daunting undertaking," said Nick Handy, director of elections for Washington.
But figures from the Washington secretary of state's office, where certified county results from the all-vote-by-mail election were posted on Tuesday, show a pattern of coastal Democratic dominance that has perhaps not been this pronounced in a governor's race here in at least 60 years — and probably ever.
Vote Leave will also apply for the designation, meaning the commission will have to choose which of the two groups gets to obtain a grant worth up to £600,000, free mailing, election broadcasts and a total spending limit of £7m.
People have already begun voting SeaTac's all-mail election.
The proposed changes to California's voting system are meant to emulate the all-mail election system Colorado implemented in 2014.
While the Aspen Times supported IRV's retention, its editorial appeared after many people had voted in an all-mail election.
As a fellow Oregonian, and a political scientist, I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Keisling's recommendation that other states consider vote-by-mail elections.
But rather than dismiss polling places as quaint anachronisms, we should recognize one cost of accelerating voter turnout via vote-by-mail elections.
