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(CN) — A Fifth Circuit panel on Thursday overturned a federal judge’s ruling blocking a Texas law banning paid political canvassing in the presence of a mail ballot. The law was passed as part of Senate Bill 1, an omnibus voting law passed by Texas Republicans in 2021 following unsupported claims that Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election was the result of widespread fraud. It prohibits canvassers from receiving “compensation or other benefit” for providing “vote harvesting services,” which it defines as an “in-person interaction with one or more voters, in the physical presence of an official ballot or a ballot voted by mail, intended to deliver votes for a specific candidate or measure.” A violation of the ban is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Christina van Waasbergen, Courthouse News Service.
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University partnership works to make vote-by-mail more efficient
Snohomish County, Washington Elections partners with UW students
By M. Mindy Moretti
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Elections officials have long found that partnerships with local colleges and universities can solve a variety of challenges that they face.
One of those recent, successful partnerships was between the Snohomish County, Washington Elections and the University of Washington Industrial and Systems Engineering program.
The Elections Division of the Auditor’s Office was invited by the county IT department to partner with them in hosting a UW College of Engineering capstone project team. While this was the county’s first election-related project, past capstone project teams have identified improvements to county mail room functions, software deployment, and other challenges.
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