As of Sept. 1, there were 729,888 registered voters in Delaware. But in their Sept. 16 court filing, submitted nearly two weeks after the deadline for applications to be mailed, state attorneys said only about 529,580 applications had been sent. Nevertheless, elections commissioner Anthony Albence said in a sworn affidavit accompanying the state’s court filing that the Department of Elections had mailed vote-by-mail applications and accompanying cover letters to all registered voters. The reason for the discrepancy was not immediately clear.
Republicans, meanwhile, have said the law could lead to problems with election security and the vote count. They contend that lawmakers improperly expanded the specific allowances for absentee voting that are contained in the constitution.
“In so doing, they upset a time-tested, dependable, and constitutional voting process and replaced it with a haphazard, flood-the-market electoral experiment that threatens to disenfranchise eligible voters…
