Sentences with phrase «use of absentee ballots»

Forty - six people, mainly city workers, were found guilty in a wide - ranging conspiracy to purchase votes through the use of absentee ballots.

She and Lenihan also pointed out the increased use of absentee ballots — a method of voting they estimate is seeing increased use this year.

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«It makes much more sense if you are trying to steal an election by either manipulating results on the back end through election official misconduct or to use absentee ballots, which are easier to control and to maintain,» said Hasen, the UC, Irvine, professor of political science.

Counties used this time to count any absentee ballots or provisional ballots not yet counted, to reconcile the number of signatures on the roster of registered voters with the number of ballots recorded on the ballot statement, to count any valid write - in votes, to reproduce any damaged ballots, if necessary, and to conduct a hand count of the ballots cast in 1 % of the precincts, chosen at random by the elections official.

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But half of Washington's voters use mail - in absentee ballots, and election officials warned that it might be Thanksgiving Day or later before the outcomes of its closest races were clear.