Those who sought to register to vote on National Voter Registration Day in Louisiana through the state's online portal found a 'scheduled maintenance' message.
National Voter Registration Day is a civic holiday which takes place on the fourth Tuesday of September with the aim of encouraging citizens to register to vote. This year, it took place on September 22. The holiday was first observed in 2012 and according to its website, 1.3 million people registered to vote on the date in 2018-2019.
and allow more people to apply for absentee ballots under the same emergency coronavirus pandemic measures used in summer elections. The ruling reinstated the absentee voting rules that applied to the statewide primaries held in July and August, which the secretary of state sought to roll back for the November election.
The proposed new measures under emergency pandemic rules for the presidential and congressional elections would have required some voters to test positive for coronavirus if they wanted to receive an absentee ballot. This requirement was not in place for primaries held during the summer. Shaquan Burton looks over a voter registration form with help from Natasha Cherry-Perez, senior associate director of community engagement with Uncommon Schools, on September 22 in the Crown Heights neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. In Louisiana, the online portal to register to vote was down for maintenance yesterday.
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