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Category: Election Workers

The Plot Thickens in Maine After 250 Missing Unmarked Mail Ballots Show Up on a Doorstep

The Plot Thickens in Maine After 250 Missing Unmarked Mail Ballots Show Up on a Doorstep

October 8, 2025October 8, 2025
We reported recently on a Maine ballot initiative pushing restrictions on voter ID and mail-in voting. Then mysteriously on September 30th, 250 unmarked absentee ballots from Elsworth, Maine showed up in an Amazon package 40 miles away. The plot thickens.
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President Trump Agitates for Release of Convicted Colorado Election Clerk Tina Peters; Federal Judge Won’t Dismiss Class Action Suit Against Elon Musk

August 26, 2025August 26, 2025
We have updates on two stories we brought you last year, as President Donald Trump attempts to get convicted Colorado county clerk Tina Peters released, and Elon Musk faces a class action suit over alleged empty promises made to swing state petition signers.
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Wisconsin Elections Commission Issues Report on 193 Uncounted Mail-In Ballots in Madison During the 2024 General Election

July 17, 2025July 17, 2025
The Wisconsin Elections Commission issued a highly critical report of the City of Madison’s former clerk July 17th, after investigating how 193 mail-in ballots were left uncounted after the 2024 general election.  The clerk was suspended by the city, then subsequently resigned.
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Local Election Officials Concerned by Trump Cuts to Election Security Funding and Personnel, According to New Survey

July 15, 2025July 15, 2025
The Brennan Center for Justice released its annual survey of local election officials.  It found continued concerns for threats, intimidation and violence against poll workers, and the loss of election security funding and staff now that the Trump administration has cut federal election security grants.
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U.S. DOJ Demands State of Colorado Turn Over Massive Number of 2024 Election Records. It Could be an Attempt to Prove Conspiracy Theories.

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025
May 12th, the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly requested ALL the State of Colorado’s records relating to the 2024 federal election, and the preservation of records related to the 2020 election.  The request may relate to President Trump’s effort to free a convicted Colorado election official. 
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