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States with increases in absentee voting saw drop in rejected ballots By Christina Cassidy ATLANTA - The coronavirus pandemic triggered an unprecedented surge in mailed ballots last year, raising concerns that a flood of first-time absentee voters would lead to another record: more ballots tossed out for missing deadlines, signatures or other reasons. An employee of the West Bloomfield Township Clerks office sorts absentee ballots by precinct and ballot number at the West Bloomfield Clerks offi...

The rate of rejected ballots was actually lower in November than during last year’s primaries in several pivotal states, The Associated Press found.

A surge of absentee ballots during last year’s election led to concerns that a larger percentage of mailed ballots could be rejected for arriving past the deadline, not having a voter’s signature or some other reason

A surge of absentee ballots during last year’s election led to concerns that a larger percentage of mailed ballots could be rejected for arriving past the...

Coffee is for closers. So is Sunburn, your morning rundown of Florida politics.

Rick Scott’s zombie claim about voter fraud in 2018 Salvador Rizzo Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.). (Tom Williams/AFP/Getty Images) “You have to remember what I went through in my 2018 election, where they completely violated the law. They found 95,000 votes after election night.” — Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), , Jan. 21, 2021 “In my race in 2018, they found 95,000 ballots after election night. That’s not inconsistent — that’s inconsistent with the law. But we have activi...

Administrators at the University of Florida are so concerned that professors will refuse to teach in person this semester that they’re asking students to use an app to report any professor who teaches online instead. And some professors are outraged by the tactic. The university added new options to its campus safety app, called Gator Safe, asking students to report any “face-to-face/online course concern,” such as if “instructor modified the class to virtual.” Many fac...