As both major political parties intensify their efforts to promote
absentee balloting as a way to lock up votes in the presidential race,
election officials say they are struggling to cope with coercive
tactics and fraudulent vote-gathering involving absentee ballots that
have undermined local races across the country. Some of those officials
say they are worried that the brashness of the schemes and the extent
to which critical swing states have allowed party operatives to involve
themselves in absentee voting - from handling ballot applications to
helping voters fill out their ballots - could taint the general
election in November. [more ]
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