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A bill temporarily extending a host of pandemic-era policies that would otherwise expire in connection with next Tuesday’s termination of the COVID-19 state of emergency cleared the Massachusetts Senate on a voice vote Thursday afternoon. The bill keeps measures including the authorizations for mail-in voting, remote public meetings and takeout cocktails for several months. Sen. Michael Rodrigues, who chairs...

Because more than half the states – including most of the key battlegrounds – don’t provide a grace period for ballots that arrive after Election Day, it is likely 25,000-50,000 ballots nationwide were ultimately rejected because of USPS problems.

While U.S. Postal Service workers likely delivered more than 99.9% of the country’s mail ballots in time to be counted this year, it also appears that tens of thousands were disenfranchised by postal delays.

More than 2 million people in Massachusetts who can vote have already done so, accounting for nearly 44% of all registered voters, the secretary of the commonwealth’s office said Thursday. That’s equal to 62.4% of the total ballots cast in 2016, according to the officials. There are five days left in the election. Adding the 2,108,337 ballots returned with the…

With a week until election day, all eyes are on the U.S. Postal Service as it copes with a massive increase in mail-in voting. More than 1.1 million mail-in ballots have now been received in Massachusetts, according to figures released by the Secretary of State William Galvin’s office on Tuesday afternoon. Nearly 683,000 more have voted in person at early…

If you are one of the many people who voted by mail this year, you may be stressing out if your local election officials haven’t officially accepted your ballot yet. But don’t worry, you have a Plan B to make sure your vote is counted. It’s called a provisional ballot. NBCLX’s Chase Cain explains how it works....

Early voting began Saturday in Massachusetts, and more than 1 million residents have already cast their ballots in person or by mail. According to the Secretary of State’s office, 1,957,066 voters have applied to vote by mail or voted early. As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, the fourth day of early voting, 1,934,032 ballots had been provided, and 1,001,725 ballots have…

Early in-person voting begins Saturday in Massachusetts, and Secretary of State William Galvin believes cities and towns are prepared. Some are predicting that 80% of registered voters in the commonwealth will cast ballots on or before Nov. 3. “The advantage of early in-person over election-day voting is, of course, you can do it on your own time, and there’ll be…

The U.S. Postal Service isn’t delivering mail as quickly as it should, but the delays don’t appear significant enough – at this time – to disrupt an election, according to a September test by NBCLX and NBC Owned Television Stations.

A Michigan resident’s apparent joke showing disdain for voting by mail is no laughing matter for one local elections official

The partisan war over how voters cast ballots in a pandemic isn’t just leading more Democrats to plan on voting by mail this fall; it’s also leading far more Democrats than Republicans to heed United State Postal Service warnings to play it safe and get ballots in the mail well before Election Day.

NBCLX’s Chase Cain exposes the truth about six circulating vote-by-mail myths ahead of the 2020 election.

With both sides calling this the most important presidential election in decades, you want to make certain that your vote is counted. NBCLX’s Clark Fouraker has a checklist of the five most important things you should do to make sure your ballot doesn’t get disqualified this November.

A record turnout is possible for the Massachusetts primary as Secretary of State William Galvin estimates up to 1.3 million people will vote this year, putting a strain on local election officials. [Click here for live results from Tuesday night’s Massachusetts primary election.] “I’m concerned, of course. We have all these factors that are unique to this election,” Galvin...

At Leah Higginbotham’s home in Newton, Massachusetts, something was missing during her daily check of the mailbox earlier this month. “Our mail carrier, who’s awesome, went on vacation,” she recalled. Mail service to her neighborhood was interrupted for a week, Higginbotham said. And with neighbors and family members relying on daily deliveries, Higginbotham said she was disturbed. “My mom,...

The House Oversight Committee intends to subpoena Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

Massachusetts’ highest court rejected a petition seeking all ballots postmarked by Sept. 1 be counted in the primaries.

The Attorney General has been warning of ballot burglars. Sounds scary, right? But as NBCLX Chase Cain uncovered, these election boogie men are more fantasy than fact.

Massachusetts highest court is weighing whether to grant more time to count mail ballots in the state’s Sept. 1 primary election amid concerns of U.S. Postal Service delays. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court is slated to hear arguments Monday in a lawsuit filed by Becky Grossman. The Democratic candidate for Congress wants to extend the deadline for counting state...

Many Americans are confused about voting by mail and have fears that using the mail to cast your ballot will generate voter fraud. Debra Cleaver, founder and CEO of VOTEAMERICA, a non-profit that helps Americans vote by mail, joined NBCLX to debunk some mail voting myths and sort through conflicting messages on absentee voting.