burning ballot boxes and double voting

Boxes containing hundreds of votes landed on the street after falling from a moving truck in Florida on October 28, election department officials said.

The local elections department said an employee in Florida’s largest county, Miami-Dade, forgot to lock the back of his truck, causing ballot bins to fall out.

A passing driver picked up the parcels from the road and took them to the local police station. Election officials later confirmed that the ballots inside had been counted and were intact.

The Miami-Dade Department of Elections said the incident was due to “human error” and the driver was later fired.

Voting without citizenship

The Supreme Court allowed Virginia to remove 1,600 suspected non-citizens from the ballot.

Glenn Youngkin, the Republican governor, issued an executive order in August requiring daily checks of state records to identify non-citizens.

Identified people had two weeks to challenge the disqualification before being removed from the electoral roll.

A case was filed against government officials alleging that some eligible voters had been removed. However, despite objections from lower courts, the Supreme Court upheld Younkin’s order, under which 1,600 voters were removed from the voter register.

Although it is illegal for non-citizens to vote, research has shown that cases in which it occurs are extremely rare.

Sealed ballots in Pennsylvania

In some cases, absentee ballots Pennsylvania Counties arrive tightly sealed due to high humidity levels, officials warned earlier this week.

The Department of State urged voters to contact their local county election office for recommendations on what to do if they are unable to open the envelope containing their ballot.

According to The New York Times, one official in Philadelphia advised voters to open the envelope, insert the completed ballot, and then seal the envelope with tape.

Number of voters affected key battlefield condition remains unclear, but it is important that voters follow the instructions because ballots left unsealed, called “naked ballots,” are invalid, state courts have said.

Voters turned away

The Trump campaign has threatened to sue the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, elections board alleging that voters were “shut out” from the polls.

The lawsuit alleged that voters were “rejected and forced to leave by security” as they waited in line to receive mail-in ballots in the Key Swing State.

The campaign called for a one-day extension to the absentee ballot request deadline, which expired on Tuesday.

The county dismissed those claims, writing on X, formerly Twitter: “Contrary to what is being portrayed on social media, if you are in line to request an absentee ballot by request by 5 p.m., you will have the opportunity to apply for one for postal voting.

He added that people lining up to vote on demand were “briefly informed that they could not be accommodated” but were ultimately allowed to submit their applications.

Other legal challenges

Republican groups have filed lawsuits in multiple states over claims of voter fraud. In Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina, the Republican National Committee said election officials must remove inactive or ineligible voters from their rolls.

In Nevada and Mississippi, the same group has filed a lawsuit to overturn laws allowing the counting of absentee ballots that arrive after Election Day. A Mississippi court ruled in favor of the commission this week, which critics say could set a precedent for legal challenges across the country.

In Georgia’s key swing stateRepublicans are challenging the eligibility of more than 63,000 people to vote in the election after new legislation was introduced in July to make it easier to sustain those challenges.

The state board of elections also approved a separate rule requiring counties to manually count votes cast at polling places on Election Day, with critics warning that such a measure would cause delays and sow distrust in the system.