Word: postmarks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stake are perhaps hundreds of ballots sent in by military voters that lack a postmark. Florida law requires that ballots be postmarked no later than Election Day. But Republicans argue that military voters sometimes have no control over when and how their mail gets postmarked...
...required of white voters to being denied legally required translators. The Justice Department is investigating the claims. Republicans, meanwhile, are charging Democrats with targeting more than 1,000 overseas ballots, the bulk of them from military voters, which were thrown out on Friday, many for either lack of a postmark or the voter's own signature. More than two-thirds of the absentee ballots were rejected in Miami-Dade County, for example, many of them because they had late postmarks or no postmarks...
Also, Democratic Attorney General Bob Butterworth said counties should count overseas ballots that bear no postmark. This was a change from a previous Democratic stance that demanded full compliance with all legal standards that would have disqualified ballots lacking postmarks...
...Monday, reversing an earlier hard-line stance, Florida's Democratic attorney general urged canvassing boards to include ballots from overseas military personnel - even if the ballots were not correctly postmarked. "No man or woman in the military service of this nation should have his or her vote rejected solely due to the absence of a postmark," Bob Butterworth told reporters. Overseas military ballots are often mailed without postmarked or postmarked late because of geographic or security restraints...
...required of white voters to being denied legally required translators. The Justice Department is investigating the claims. Republicans, meanwhile, are charging Democrats with targeting more than 1,000 overseas ballots, the bulk of them from military voters, which were thrown out on Friday, many for either lack of a postmark or the voter's own signature. More than two thirds of the absentee ballots were rejected in Miami-Dade County, for example, many of them because they had late postmarks or no postmarks...