{"id":2977,"date":"2020-11-19T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salinareport.com\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2020-12-16T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T11:02:14","slug":"access-raises-much-needed-23000-in-less-than-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salinareport.com\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"ACCESS raises much-needed $23,000 in less than 10 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a normal election year in any given state, hundreds or even thousands of absentee ballots get tossed for everything from late postmarks to open envelopes.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina rejected 546 ballots for missing witness signatures in the 2012 presidential race. Virginia tossed 216 ballots in the 2018 midterms because they arrived in an unofficial envelope. Arizona discarded 1,516 ballots for nonmatching signatures the same year.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 presidential election will not be normal.<\/p>\n<p>Absentee ballot rejections this November are projected to reach historic levels, risking widespread disenfranchisement of minority voters and the credibility of election results, a USA TODAY, Columbia Journalism Investigations and PBS series FRONTLINE investigation found.<\/p>\n<p>At least 1.03 million absentee ballots could be tossed if half of the nation votes by mail. Discarded votes jump to 1.55 million if 75% of the country votes absentee. In the latter scenario, more than 185,000 votes could be lost in Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin \u2013 states considered key to capturing the White House.<\/p>\n<div id=\"asset-5927466002\" class=\"center-well\" data-in-depth-oembed=\"\" data-in-view-event=\"oembed-5927466002\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a normal election year in any given state, hundreds or even thousands of absentee ballots get tossed for everything from late postmarks to open envelopes. North Carolina rejected 546 ballots for missing witness signatures in the 2012 presidential race. Virginia tossed 216 ballots in the 2018 midterms because they arrived in an unofficial envelope. Arizona discarded 1,516 ballots for nonmatching signatures the same year. The 2020 presidential election will not be normal. Absentee ballot rejections this November are projected to reach historic levels, risking widespread disenfranchisement of minority voters and the credibility of election results, a USA TODAY, Columbia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ACCESS raises much-needed $23,000 in less than 10 days - Medford Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salinareport.com\/?p=2977\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ACCESS raises much-needed $23,000 in less than 10 days - Medford Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a normal election year in any given state, hundreds or even thousands of absentee ballots get tossed for everything from late postmarks to open envelopes. 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