USPS Tries Rejecting Entire County’s Ballot Over Spacing Issue

US appeals court rejects Trump bid to implement mail-in voting restrictions

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined to allow President Donald Trump's administration to implement a new U.S. Postal Service rule that would tighten mail-in voting requirements before November's congressional election, as the ​U.S. Supreme Court weighs a similar request.

Supreme Court gives Trump an interim win on his mail voting order, but hurdles loom

The Supreme Court paused a lower court's ruling that blocked key parts of Trump's order to limit voting by mail for the midterms. But U.S. Postal Service work on the order remains blocked nationwide.

Voter Portal Fails on Deadline Day, Leaving Oklahomans Unable to Register for November Election

Oklahoma’s online voter registration portal failed on the last day to register for the November 3 general election, leaving would-be voters scrambling to print forms and reach a post office by closing time. The State Election Board didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment as the deadline passed.

ORS 254.480 – Replacement ballots

An elector may obtain a replacement ballot described in ORS 254.470 (Procedures for conducting election by mail). To vote a replacement ballot,…

Election Rumor Rundown for October 13: Emerging rumors around voting machines and ‘ballot dumping’

DHS reports misconstrue vulnerabilities as having been exploited, “Ballot Dumping” in Valley Center misleadingly suggest mass voter fraud, and prediction markets already advertising election bettin…

6 other ways Trump is meddling in the midterms

The Supreme Court ruled against Trump’s mail voting rules, but the president is still trying to mess with the election.

USPS® Post Office & Collection Box Data | PostalPro

Datasets containing the specific coordinates of United States Postal Service Post Offices and blue collection boxes as well as detailed information around specific services offered and hours of operations or collection times. Many industries, such as mapping, marketing, retail, logistics, and navigation can benefit from access to USPS Post Office and Collection Box data.

Rivals scramble to react to Washington Post endorsement crisis

The Post has tried to contain the damage from owner Jeff Bezos’ last-minute decision to have the paper not endorse a presidential candidate.

Oregon Secretary of State : Ballot Help : State of Oregon

Help with your ballot, such as how to mark your ballot, get a replacement ballot and how to find candidate and ballot information.

The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment.

Gerber, Alan S. & Donald P. Green (2000) “The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment.” American Political Science Review 94(3):653-663.

Voting place map and hours | Where to vote | City of Vancouver

Find which voting places are close to your home, work, or where you're running errands.

Some Michigan voters still without absentee ballots after clerks miss state deadline

Voters in multiple Michigan counties are still waiting for their ballots.

The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry

Allusions to the “problem of metropolitan government” are often made in characterizing the difficulties supposed to arise because a metropolitan region is a legal non-entity. From this point of view, the people of a metropolitan region have no general instrumentality of government available to deal directly with the range of problems which they share in common. Rather there is a multiplicity of federal and state governmental agencies, counties, cities, and special districts that govern within a metropolitan region.This view assumes that the multiplicity of political units in a metropolitan area is essentially a pathological phenomenon. The diagnosis asserts that there are too many governments and not enough government. The symptoms are described as “duplication of functions” and “overlapping jurisdictions.” Autonomous units of government, acting in their own behalf, are considered incapable of resolving the diverse problems of the wider metropolitan community. The political topography of the metropolis is called a “crazy-quilt pattern” and its organization is said to be an “organized chaos.” The prescription is reorganization into larger units—to provide “a general metropolitan framework” for gathering up the various functions of government. A political system with a single dominant center for making decisions is viewed as the ideal model for the organization of metropolitan government. “Gargantua” is one name for it.

The Twilight of the Polls? A Review of Trends in Polling Accuracy and the Causes of Polling Misses

Polls have had a number of high-profile misses in recent elections. We review the current polling environment, the performance of polls in a historical context, the mechanisms of polling error, and the causes of several recent misses in Britain and the US. Contrary to conventional wisdom, polling errors have been constant over time, although the level of error has always been substantially beyond that implied by stated margins of error. Generally, there is little evidence that voters lying about their vote intention (so-called ‘shy’ voters) is a substantial cause of polling error. Instead, polling errors have most commonly resulted from problems with representative samples and weighting, undecided voters breaking in one direction, and to a lesser extent late swings and turnout models. We conclude with a discussion of future directions for polling both in terms of fixing the problems identified and new approaches to understanding public opinion.