Ballots

One of the men had a gun permit for Virginia, which is not valid in Pennsylvania. The other man had no permit at all, authorities said. NBC10’s Matt DeLucia reports.

As states across the U.S. release vote totals for the presidential election, some social media users are falsely claiming that ballots are being invalidated because some voters may have used Sharpie markers to fill out their ballot. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Nov. 5, 2020.

A Clark County, Nev., elections official refuted claims from the Trump campaign that there were irregularities in the vote count. The Clark County official also said they expect to have most mail-in ballots counted by Saturday or Sunday.

There’s a fair chance Americans won’t know the winner of Tuesday’s presidential election while it’s still Tuesday — or maybe even Wednesday. The main reason? Many states have made it easier to request a mail ballot amid the coronavirus pandemic and concerns about crowded polling places. But mail ballots generally require more time to process than ballots that are...

In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 3 election, mail-in ballots have been arriving at a record pace in Los Angeles County and throughout the country. Los Angeles County moved its ballot processing center from its elections headquarters in Norwalk to the Fairplex in Pomona — site of the LA County Fair, which was cancelled this year — to...

Hundreds of ballot drop boxes are in place around Southern California, giving voters another option to cast their ballots in the November election.

Voters throughout California are deciding whether to expand the state’s marijuana industry in this year’s election. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Oct. 30, 2020.

As of mid-October, more than 2 million Californians signed up for the state’s ballot tracking service. They receive automated notifications about the location of their vote-by-mail ballots.

United States Postal Service officials are looking into a video shared by the Florida House Democratic Leader showing what he says are piles of unsorted mail sitting in a Miami-Dade post office, sparking concerns that valid ballots won’t be counted.

If you haven’t received your ballot in the mail, here is how you can track it. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Oct. 29, 2020.

The Contra Costa County Registrar of Voters is conducting an investigation after dozens of ballots that were dropped off in front of Richmond City Hall on Oct. 12 went missing.

More than 21 million voters across the U.S. have already cast ballots in person amid record-breaking early turnout

Arson investigators are looking into a fire that started inside a ballot drop box in Baldwin Park over the weekend.

The FBI is now looking into who could have set a ballot drop box on fire in Baldwin Park over the weekend. The fire damaged more ballots than election officials originally thought. So what do you do if your ballot was one of them? Hetty Chang reports on Oct. 19, 2020.

The Supreme Court will allow Pennsylvania to count ballots received up to three days after the election, rejecting a Republican plea.

The FBI is assisting arson investigators in Baldwin Park after a ballot box caught fire and completed ballots were damaged. Gordon Tokumatsu reported on NBC4 News on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020.

Ballots cast by people who vote early but die before Election Day are sometimes cited as proof of voter fraud, but in many states they’re perfectly legal

California’s Republican Party no longer will label its ballot drop boxes as “official” to avoid confusion with those used by county registrars, but may expand their use even as state officials say they’re illegal, a party official said Tuesday.

Officials say the 2020 election, nationwide, is unlike any other with regards to concerns about integrity. Vikki Vargas reported on NBC4 News on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020.