[EL] Question for the list about tabulation of early in-person votes

David david.l.epstein at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 07:18:38 PDT 2020


In case this hasn't been posted yet, vote.org has a list of absentee ballot
and "vote by mail" voting rules by state:
https://www.vote.org/absentee-voting-rules/.

David

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:52 AM Edward Still <still at votelaw.com> wrote:

> In Alabama, a voter may cast an absentee ballot by going to the office of
> the absentee ballot manager, or by mailing the ballot back to the ABM.
>
> Upon receipt of the absentee ballot, the absentee election manager must
> record such on the absentee list and safely keep the ballots without
> breaking the seal of the affidavit envelope until election day. Beginning
> at noon on election day, the absentee election manager must deliver the
> sealed affidavit envelopes to the election officials designated for
> counting absentee ballots.
>
> An absentee ballot submitted by hand delivery to the absentee election
> manager must be received in person from the voter no later than the close
> of the last business day before the day of election, or, in the case of a
> voter under the emergency voting procedure, delivered by the medical
> emergency designee to and received by the absentee election manager no
> later than noon on the day of the election.
>
> Ed
>
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>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 1:12 AM Pamela S Karlan <pkarlan at stanford.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> How are early, in-person votes tabulated if people vote early at county
>> office buildings or voting centers or the like?  Do those votes get
>> attributed or sent to a voter's precinct for processing before election day
>> itself, or are they somehow included in the election day total?
>>
>> Many thanks for any information y'all have.  I'm writing a short piece
>> that discusses, among other things, the blue shift and wonder whether these
>> votes play into that one way or another.
>>
>> Pamela S. Karlan
>>
>> Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law
>>
>> Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
>>
>> Stanford Law School
>>
>> karlan at stanford.edu
>>
>> 650-725-4851
>>
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