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Buckley Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court, which held that limits on election spending in the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 § 608 are unconstitutional. In a per curiam ("by the Court") opinion, they ruled that expenditure limits contravene the First Amendment provision on freedom of speech because a restriction on spending for political communication necessarily reduces the quantity of expression. It limited disclosure provisions and limited the Federal Election Commission's power.
Ballot condom Steps that election protection experts, such as Greg Palast, suggest to make sure your ballot is counted.
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Caging "Vote caging is an illegal trick to suppress minority voters (who tend to vote Democrat) by getting them knocked off the voter rolls if they fail to answer registered mail sent to homes they aren't living at (because they are, say, at college or at war)." Greg Palast, Raging Caging: What the heck is vote caging, and why should we care? (May 31, 2007)
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PLEO See Add-On Delegates.
pre-filling A new technique where both well-meaning election officials and malicious officials (and possibly organizations) can pre-fill voter registration forms with names, birthdays, voter ID numbers, or other personally identifiable information in order to have them thrown out.
Judge Ian Thornhill ordered an Iowa county Thursday to invalidate 50,000 requests for absentee ballots, agreeing with President Donald Trump's campaign that its elections commissioner overstepped his authority by pre-filling them with voters' personal information. He issued a temporary injunction ordering Linn County Auditor Joel Miller to notify voters in writing that the forms should not have been pre-filled with their information and cannot be processed.
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reapportionment See redistricting.
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Spoiling A ballot may get spoiled when a voter makes any mark in the ballot that is contrary to statutory provisions envisaged in election statute. (US Legal) More than 534,000 mail ballots were rejected during 2020 primaries across 23 states — nearly a quarter in key battlegrounds for the fall.
Stuffing Ballot stuffing is a type of electoral fraud whereby a person permitted only one vote submits multiple ballots or some person or entity does so "on their behalf."
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Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act Provides the legal basis for active members of the Uniformed Services, the Merchant Marine, and the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, their eligible family members, and U.S. citizens residing outside the United States absentee voting requirements for federal offices.
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