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Fear of COVID-19 will not be reason to vote absentee in November, Tennessee Supreme Court rules (Mariah Timms / Tennessean) "Fear of COVID-19 will not be a reason to vote by mail in the November general election, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
Absentee ballots filed for Thursday's primary will remain valid, according to the court.
The high court's decision reverses a Nashville judge's injunction that allowed any voter concerned about COVID-19 to vote by mail. But the full lawsuit remains unresolved."
Iowa Governor Expands Voting Rights (Kira Lerner / The Appeal) "In the latest victory in the movement against criminal disenfranchisement, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds issued an executive order Wednesday restoring voting rights to most people convicted of felonies who have completed their sentences. The order will enable tens of thousands of disenfranchised Iowans to register to vote by the November elections...
... The order is a temporary fix since a future governor could rescind it. Reynolds has called on the legislature to adopt a constitutional amendment to expand voting rights, to no avail."
After dire warnings from local elections administrators on Wednesday, the Maryland State Board of Elections scheduled a Friday vote to ask Hogan (R) to change course and open as few as 90 large voting centers statewide — instead of 1,848 neighborhood precincts."
RNC and Trump campaign prepare to wage war over voting laws (Ryan Nobles / CNN) "With a war chest of $20 million at its disposal, the Republican National Committee's legal team has started to take action -- and is poised to do more -- against voting laws and policies that they view as unconstitutional and potentially damaging to the President's prospects of winning.
'The game plan is to fight at every turn," a senior campaign official said of the strategy.'"
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