Ballots

The I-Team wanted to know what’s being done to safeguard your vote, so they went inside the LA County’s elections operations center to find out. Lolita Lopez reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Sept. 6, 2021.

With recall voting underway, many Southern California residents are reporting having problems with their ballots. Robert Kovacik reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on August 19, 2021.

With recall voting underway, many Southern California residents are reporting having problems with their ballots.

Florida Republicans have moved to rewrite a litany of rules that they said would enhance the integrity of future elections.

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...

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.

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.

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...

Matching signatures can be a hurdle, but you will be notified if your signature does not match. Lolita Lopez reported on NBC4 News on Wednesay, Oct. 28, 2020.

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

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 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.

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

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