Candidates make final push before midterms

Cortez Masto makes a final push with Latina voters in close Nevada Senate race

LAS VEGAS — On a recent September evening, amid clattering plates of sizzling chorizo and queso fundido, Latina business owners packed into a popular Mexican eatery to talk about the stakes of Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s losing her seat.

One by one, seated as a portrait of Mexican feminist icon Frida Kahlo holding a smoldering cigarette hung in the corner, they took the microphone to tell their stories.

“I felt so desperate,” the restaurant’s owner, Vanessa Barreat, said of having nearly lost her business at the height of the pandemic in 2020. She paused and held her nose in an unsuccessful attempt not to cry. Barreat built up the business at La Vecindad restaurant with her husband, an artist who created the colorful mural decor. “I didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent.”

Barreat credited Cortez Masto for helping her secure small-business assistance to help her business survive the economic hit.

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Republican Gov. Mike DeWine booed at Trump rally in Ohio

VANDALIA, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican up for re-election Tuesday, took the stage to boos here Monday night at former President Donald Trump’s election eve rally.

Trump, campaigning for Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance, called DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to the stage during his remarks. It was an awkward and somewhat surprising moment, given how the Ohio governor is not closely signed with Trump and was not scheduled to speak at the event.

“We’re moving Ohio forward,” DeWine said from the stage as the boos rang out across the crowd — not overwhelmingly, but loud enough to catch Trump’s attention.

“Well that was a very nice welcome,” Trump said sarcastically as DeWine departed. “But he’s up by 25 points or something.”

DeWine’s restrictions early on in the coronavirus pandemic angered many GOP voters.

Polls have shown DeWine with a healthy lead over Democrat Nan Whaley, the former mayor of nearby Dayton. Vance, who received a warmer reception from the crowd, is in a closer race with Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, stumping for Herschel Walker, says a GOP Senate would stop DC statehood and Biden-picked ‘crazy judges’

KENNESAW, Ga. — Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., campaigned Monday for Herschel Walker, rallying the Republican base to end Democratic control of the Senate on Election Day.

“Georgia, let’s get it right this time,” he told the crowd. “A liberal’s nightmare is to wake up and find Herschel Walker in the Senate.”

The South Carolina senator also went after D.C. statehood and called for a GOP Senate to hit the brakes on President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees.

“Does anybody need D.C. and Puerto Rico to be a state?” Graham asked.

“No!” some in the crowd yelled.

“That dilutes our power,” Graham said.

If Walker is elected, Graham told voters in this city near Atlanta, “you’re going to get a vote to stop the crazy judges.”

“The pathway to a Republican majority runs through the state of Georgia,” he added.

Bill Clinton and other Democrats make last-minute appeals in heavily Latino South Texas amid high-stakes races

EDINBURG, Texas — Former President Bill Clinton made an election eve sweep through South Texas in support of Democratic congressional candidates, warning voters that Republicans “are coming for you.”

Clinton’s appearance the day before Election Day was aimed at holding on to the Latino dominant ground that Democrats have held for a century in South Texas, which could be becoming more Republican.

Clinton credited the GOP for being “hard to beat in a bumper sticker campaign” at an afternoon rally for Michelle Vallejo, the Democratic candidate in Texas’ 15th Congressional District.

Vallejo is one among three South Texas Democrats locked in highly competitive congressional races with Republicans who’re Latina.

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Arizona’s Maricopa County is unlikely to report final election results until Friday, official says

PHOENIX — Election officials in Arizona’s most populous county said Monday that they don’t anticipate having the election results finalized until Friday.

The warning got here as candidates make their final push on the marketing campaign path and voters say they’re increasingly concerned about violence and misinformation on Election Day.

“Under Arizona legislation, we’re not going to have final outcomes on election evening,” Bill Gates, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, told reporters.

“The downside is that folks out in social media and elsewhere will take the truth that we do not have final outcomes on election evening or early the subsequent day as in some way proof of fraud or permitting that folks can begin rigging the election or one thing like that — and that is merely not the case,” he added.

The timing is due, in part, by mail-in voting and the county’s extensive signature verification protocol, Gates said. Officials will start to process mail-in ballots Wednesday, and expect to have between 95% and 99% of ballots counted by Friday. Day-of votes will be reported after polls close at 8 p.m. local time Tuesday.

As of Monday morning, Maricopa County has received more than 974,700 early voting packets and have verified more than 960,000 of those ballots, according to the county recorder’s office.

“We wish to get it proper,” Gates said. “It isn’t any approach a sign of incompetence or fraud.”

As Democrats press ‘threat to democracy’ in campaign’s final days, few GOP candidates still want to talk about 2020

MT. PLEASANT, Mich. — Matthew DePerno, the Republican nominee for attorney general in Michigan, checked off every issue he says his campaign is focused on in the closing weeks of a key midterm race: Crime, sex trafficking, fentanyl, education, the economy, business regulations and gas prices.

One issue he did not mention? Efforts to investigate the 2020 election and institute changes to the state’s election procedures — the promises that helped propel DePerno onto the political map and won him former President Donald Trump’s endorsement.

“I think it polls down the list,” DePerno told NBC News in an interview. “Certainly, I think it’s an important issue. But when we’re out talking to voters across the state — independents and soft Democrats and those middle-aged, suburban women in southeast Michigan — it’s just an issue that ranks lower than crime and education. It ranks lower than religious liberty, ranks lower than the business issues, inflation, gas prices and meat-and-potato issues of putting food on the table. I think it’s still important. It’s just … sort of a lesser issue.”

With midterm campaigns in their closing sprint, DePerno’s focus speaks to a trend across the battleground states. While Democrats are framing the elections as a referendum on the future of democracy, offering stark warnings that a significant number of Trump allies running for office have demonstrated they will not respect the democratic process after two years of Trump pushing his stolen election lie, Republicans have shifted their attention elsewhere. They’ve switched gears to focus on issues such as inflation and crime that poll highest among voter concerns while highlighting their stance on “parental rights” to bolster their conservative credentials rather than taking aim at the 2020 vote.

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Republicans try to allay concerns about U.S. aid to Ukraine ahead of Election Day

Last week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said at a Trump rally in Iowa that “under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine.” In recent days, senior Republicans in Congress have worked to make it clear that won’t be the case.

In the wake of Greene’s assertion and the questioning by other Republicans aligned with former President Donald Trump of the amount of U.S. aid delivered to Ukraine in current weeks, Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Rick Scott of Florida went on tv to make it clear that Republicans wouldn’t waver of their assist of the Ukrainians because the nation continues its counteroffensive towards Russia’s invasion.

“I think we have to continue to do everything we can to support Ukraine, who wants to defend their freedom and stop Russia from continuing to expand,” Scott said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” when he was pressed about the GOP’s position after Greene’s statement.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, who hopes to become speaker if Republicans win control of the House this week, worked to clarify his own statement that a GOP-controlled Congress would not provide Ukraine with “a blank check” in its fight. Many viewed the statement as an indication of a new approach if Republicans take over.

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FBI sets up election security command posts at headquarters and field offices

The FBI has set up an election security command post at its Washington headquarters and separate command centers in all 56 field offices around the country.

The headquarters task force relies heavily on the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, a unit tasked with countering foreign disinformation. But it also includes people from the Criminal Investigative Division, the Cyber Division and the Counterterrorism Division.

The foreign influence task force will watch for malicious activity that can be attributed to a foreign government or its proxy.

The FBI is concerned mostly about Russia, China and Iran. The National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command are hunting for malware and surveilling those adversaries.

Democrats sue in Pennsylvania mail-in ballot litigation

Democrats, together with John Fetterman’s Senate marketing campaign, filed a lawsuit Monday demanding that undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots be counted in Pennsylvania’s election.

The lawsuit, which follows a similar complaint filed Friday by various civil rights groups, argues that a provision in state law requiring mail-in ballots to include the date on the outside of mail-in ballot envelopes violates federal law. The suit names the state’s 67 county boards of elections as defendants.

The state Supreme Court last week ordered that such ballots should not be counted, with the justices divided 3-3 on the legal question.

The plaintiffs in Monday’s suit, including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, say that the date requirement is immaterial and that enforcing it would violate a federal civil rights law that protects the right to vote.

Cobb County agrees to extend absentee deadline for affected Georgia voters

Cobb County has agreed to extend the deadline for Georgia voters who didn’t obtain requested absentee ballots, American Civil Liberties Union legal professional Vasu Abhiraman mentioned.

The extension to Nov. 14 applies to nearly 700 voters who did not receive absentee ballots and have not voted in person.

The ACLU of Georgia sued the county Board of Elections & Registration, alleging that it “didn’t well timed ship absentee ballots” to about 1,036 voters whose absentee ballot applications had been marked as issued last month but apparently were never sent.

The group had asked that all those affected be permitted extensions to return the ballots until Nov. 14 — the same deadline as military ballots.

Cobb County is one of the most crucial counties in Georgia. The increasingly diverse Atlanta suburb is home to swing voters in both parties, and it is seen as a key to any statewide office.

Nancy Pelosi describes Capitol Police informing her of husband’s assault

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she was asleep in Washington when Capitol Police appeared at her door at roughly 5 a.m. to inform her that her husband, Paul Pelosi, had been attacked in their San Francisco home.

In a clip of a CNN interview released Monday, Pelosi publicly recalled for the first time details of how she learned about her husband’s brutal attack late last month.

“I had just gotten in the night before from San Francisco, and — I hear the doorbell ring,” Pelosi said. When an officer said they needed to speak with her, she said, she hadn’t imagined it was about her husband.

“I’m pondering my kids, my grandchildren. I by no means thought it could be Paul, as a result of, you realize, I knew he wouldn’t be out and about, let’s assume. And in order that they got here in,” Pelosi said. “At that time, we didn’t even know where he was or what his condition was — we just knew that there was an assault on him in our home.”

Paul Pelosi was discharged from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital last week after he underwent surgery to repair a skull fracture and injuries to his right arm and hands after the attack on Oct. 28.

Nikki Haley campaigns in Wisconsin for GOP with focus on crime and the economy

JANESVILLE, Wis. — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley campaigned Monday with Sen. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, where Republicans focused their closing message to voters on issues around crime and inflation. She also raised transgender rights and critical race theory. 

“They want to talk about critical race theory, where if you have a 5-year-old girl, if she goes into kindergarten, if she’s white, you’re telling her she’s bad,” Haley said.

Johnson, who’s competing against Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandala Barnes, accused Barnes of being soft on crime and blamed President Joe Biden for higher inflation and dividing the country. 

“This fundamental transformation of America, unfortunately, now we’re seeing what it looks like — it’s 40-year high inflation, record gas prices, skyrocketing crime and open borders flooding with deadly drugs, the embarrassing and dangerous defeat in Afghanistan,” Johnson instructed the group. “All of these things have weakened this nation, but I would argue nothing has weakened America more than the division the Democrats, and now President Biden, are exacerbating.”

Record variety of Black Republicans working for workplace in 2022

Wisconsin Democrats emphasize abortion, threats to democracy in closing pitch

Wisconsin Democratic candidates are making abortion entry and threats to democracy a central theme of their closing pitch to voters, extra so than considerations over inflation and the economic system. 

Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes instructed volunteers in Milwaukee Sunday that “our democracy is quite literally on the line” and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who’s working for re-election, instructed a bunch of principally school college students on the University of Wisconsin in Madison that Republicans would make ladies “second-class citizens” by taking away entry to abortion. 

“Women have the right to determine their health care, their reproductive health care and they don’t have to ask Tim Michels or any Republican legislature for permission,” Evers mentioned, referring to his Republican opponent.

The heads of two outstanding abortion-rights teams, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood Federation of American, had been touring with Evers and Barnes across the state Sunday to assist elevate the message round abortion entry — a message they’re hoping will work significantly properly at driving school college students to the polls.

“We’ve seen all these spikes in voter registration for young voters in all these critical states after Dobbs, so we’re counting on it,” NARAL President Mini Timmaraju mentioned throughout an interview on the University of Wisconsin occasion. “Both of our organizations have made significant investments in youth voter outreach, especially on college campuses.”

Former President Clinton campaigns for Rep. Cuellar in Texas

Campaigning in Laredo, Texas, on Monday, former President Bill Clinton mentioned, “I am campaigning for my grandchildren’s future,” before including, “I’m largely here to urge the re-election of Henry Cuellar.”

Cuellar is one among three South Texas Democrats locked in highly competitive congressional races with Republicans who’re Latina. The districts have been solidly Democratic for greater than a century, though legislative redistricting has shifted their boundaries over time.

Fighting Americans’ sentiment that the nation is on the unsuitable monitor, Cuellar urged voters to recollect previous Democratic successes: “If you want to live like a Republican, vote for a Democrat,” the nine-term congressman mentioned, before reminding voters it was Democrats who introduced them Social Security and Obamacare amongst different issues.

Cuellar’s challenger, Republican Cassy Garcia, has been waging an aggressive, multimillion-dollar marketing campaign to attempt to present that the upper GOP voting amongst Latino voters within the space was not a one-time fluke however an indication of a altering political panorama inside the 34.5 million Latino voter pool.

New TV advert bashing Texas Gov. Abbott consists of 911 name from little one throughout Uvalde taking pictures

A new 30-second television ad criticizing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s easing of gun restrictions within the state options disturbing footage and calls from inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in the course of the lethal taking pictures.

The advert, by a bunch known as No It Couldn’t, begins with video footage of the Republican governor signing the brand new gun legislation and dismissing the notion that there might be dangerous penalties from it. The clip then cuts to surveillance video of the Robb Elementary gunman strolling the hallways and audio of a 911 name from a toddler inside a classroom.

“I’m in classroom 112, please hurry, there’s a lot of dead bodies,” the kid is heard saying within the 911 name.

The advert ends with a dial tone.

DOJ to observe polls in 24 states to make sure compliance with federal voting rights legal guidelines

The Department of Justice introduced Monday that it plans to observe 64 jurisdictions in 24 states to make sure compliance with federal voting rights legal guidelines, following a decades-long follow.

“Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Division has regularly monitored elections in the field in jurisdictions around the country to protect the rights of voters,” mentioned the DOJ, which releases an inventory of locations that it displays each common election.

The division additionally mentioned its civil rights division “will also take complaints from the public nationwide regarding possible violations of the federal voting rights laws through its call center.”

Those monitoring every jurisdiction will embrace folks from the DOJ’s civil rights division and from U.S. legal professional’s places of work.

Supreme Court turns away GOP problem to Michigan maps

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Republican problem to congressional district maps in Michigan which are getting used for this yr’s election.

A short order famous that the case is moot as a result of the election is already underway with early voters having solid their ballots. A 3-judge panel had upheld the maps in an April ruling, permitting them for use this yr.

The problem introduced by a bunch of Republican voters argued that the maps drawn by the state’s impartial redistricting fee had been illegal as a result of the inhabitants deviation between districts was too massive.

The redistricting fee’s attorneys instructed the courtroom that the case was moot as a result of the plaintiffs had been searching for to dam use of the maps within the 2022 election.

Georgia Sec. of State investigating county’s alleged failure to ship absentee ballots

A spokesperson for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger mentioned an investigation has been opened into Cobb County’s alleged failure to mail out absentee ballots.

“It is unacceptable, period. We have opened an investigation and will refer to the State elections board to determine appropriate consequences,” the spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.

The investigation comes a day after a number of voters and the Cobb County Democracy Center, an advocacy group, sued the county. The lawsuit seeks to maneuver the deadline for ballots to be acquired by 7 p.m. on Election Day, per Georgia legislation, to Nov. 14 — the identical deadline for absentee voters within the navy and abroad.

Cobb County elections officers allegedly didn’t ship requested absentee ballots to greater than a thousand voters who requested them weeks in the past. Board of Election officers are required below state legislation to ship out absentee ballots inside three enterprise days of processing an utility.

New Warnock advert options high Georgia Republicans criticizing Walker

ATLANTA — A new TV ad launched by Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., is an attraction to conflicted Republicans within the state, that includes two high state GOP leaders criticizing his opponent.

“Republicans are speaking out about Herschel Walker’s history of violence,” a narrator says within the advert, which started airing in Georgia on Saturday, based on a spokesperson with the Warnock marketing campaign.

The advert then exhibits Georgia’s Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan saying in a TV interview: “Herschel Walker hasn’t earned my respect or my vote.”

GOP Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black, who ran towards Walker within the main, discusses an allegation from Walker’s ex-wife. “If you held a gun to your wife’s head and threatened to blow it off. You’re a bad man,” including “that Georgians deserve better.”

Walker spokesman Will Kiley responded: “Raphael Warnock is desperate to save his failing campaign. Warnock has wasted millions of dollars smearing Herschel and it isn’t working. Every poll shows that Warnock has failed. If he can’t use his campaign’s money responsibly, how can we trust him with ours?”

Obama, Biden urge folks to go vote briefly video clip

Former President Barack Obama tweeted a brief video clip Monday of himself with Biden urging folks to go vote on Tuesday.

“A quick reminder: Vote!” the 2 Democrats mentioned in what appeared like a selfie-style video recorded on a cellphone. “Go to IWillVote.com to find out where and how,” Biden added.

Putin ally on U.S. elections: ‘We have interfered, we’re interfering and we are going to proceed to intrude.’

LONDON — Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin suggested on Monday that he had interfered in U.S. elections and would proceed doing so, an obvious admission from a determine who has been formally implicated by Washington in efforts to affect American politics.

In feedback posted by the press service of his Concord catering agency on Russia’s Facebook equal VKontakte, Prigozhin mentioned: “We have interfered, we are interfering and we will continue to interfere. Carefully, accurately, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do.”

The comment was posted on the eve of the U.S. midterm elections in response to a request for remark from a Russian news web site.

Prigozhin, who’s also known as “Putin’s chef” as a result of his catering firm operates Kremlin contracts, has been formally accused of sponsoring Russia-based “troll farms” that search to affect U.S. politics.

In July, the U.S. State Department provided a reward of as much as $10 million for information on Prigozhin in reference to “engagement in U.S. election interference.” He has been hit by U.S., British and European Union sanctions.

The good news and unhealthy news for Democrats in NBC News ballot

The good news for Democrats is that their base is not napping via the 2022 election: 73% of Democrats are registering excessive curiosity in voting this yr, based on a brand new NBC News poll.

By distinction, the determine was 49% in 2010 and 48% in 2014 — when low Democratic turnout fueled a crimson wave and large Republican beneficial properties.

The unhealthy news for Democrats is that President Joe Biden’s approval score is low — 44% — and even decrease amongst independents: 28%. Those are robust headwinds for Democrats to beat.

Notably, the survey exhibits that disapproving of Biden does not cleanly correlate to wanting GOP management of Congress: 38% of independents mentioned they like a Republican Congress, whereas 36% mentioned they like a Democratic Congress.

Elon Musk says he recommends ‘voting for a Republican Congress’

Elon Musk, whose buy of Twitter was finalized final week, tweeted Monday that he recommends that voters solid ballots in assist of GOP candidates as a result of Democrats management the White House.

“To independent-minded voters: Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic,” Musk tweeted.

Twitter introduced mass layoffs final week, together with folks whose main job is combating misinformation on the platform, current and former employees told NBC News. Two former Twitter staff and one present worker warned the layoffs may carry chaos across the elections.

Last month, he tweeted and deleted an unfounded anti-LGBTQ conspiracy concept Sunday morning in regards to the assault on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband from a web site that has a historical past of publishing false information.

Republicans sue to disqualify absentee ballots in battleground states

Republican officers and candidates have filed lawsuits to disqualify hundreds of absentee ballots in three key battleground states amid baseless allegations of voter fraud forward of Election Day:

In Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court sided with the Republican National Committee, which urged election officers to not rely ballots “contained in undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes” even when the ballots arrive before Election Day.

In Michigan, Kristina Karamo, the GOP nominee for secretary of state, sued Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey in an effort to toss absentee ballots except voters current identification.

And in Wisconsin, Republicans received a court ruling that forestalls some mail-in ballots from being counted if there’s a “missing or insufficient witness address” on absentee poll envelopes.

Georgia county sued for not sending absentee ballots

Cobb County, Georgia, is going through a lawsuit to have it ship absentee ballots in a single day to a whole lot of voters from the county after civil rights teams and voters alleged election officers didn’t mail them out.

The lawsuit, filed Sunday by a number of voters and the Cobb County Democracy Center, an advocacy group, seeks to maneuver the deadline for ballots to be acquired by 7 p.m. on Election Day, per Georgia legislation, to Nov. 14 — the identical deadline for absentee voters within the navy and abroad.

Under Georgia legislation, Board of Election officers are required to ship out absentee ballots inside three enterprise days of processing an utility. But Cobb County elections officers allegedly didn’t ship requested absentee ballots to greater than a thousand voters who requested them weeks in the past.

McCarthy previews GOP’s plans in the event that they take the House

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in an interview with CNN on Sunday provided a glimpse into the Republicans’ plans in the event that they win the House and he turns into speaker within the midterm elections.

McCarthy mentioned these plans embrace tackling inflation, rising crime and border safety — three speaking factors Republicans have hammered main as much as midterms. McCarthy spoke to CNN the identical day he rallied for a trio of Hispanic GOP ladies who’re working to characterize key districts alongside the southern border.

McCarthy additionally mentioned oversight and investigations can be a key precedence for a GOP-majority House, which doubtlessly consists of probes into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. He additionally left open the potential of launching potential impeachment proceedings that a few of his members have pushed for.

Additionally, McCarthy reiterated his vow to reinstate Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to her committee assignments after Democrats final yr voted to revoke them following incendiary remarks that mused over the execution of Democratic lawmakers. Greene beforehand indicated that she needs a seat on the House Oversight Committee.

“She’s going to have committees to serve on, just like every other member,” McCarthy told CNN. He added, “Members request different committees, and as we go through the Steering Committee, we’ll look at it.”

Biden and Trump to ship closing pitches at rallies Monday evening

On the eve of the midterm elections, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are scheduled to ship their closing pitches to voters at rallies Monday evening.

Biden plans to attend digital receptions for the Democratic National Committee this afternoon in Washington. The president then heads to Bowie State University in reliably blue Maryland to ship remarks at a rally for gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore and the Democratic Party.

Meanwhile, Trump heads to red-leaning Ohio to stump for Senate GOP candidate J.D. Vance as he makes a final push within the aggressive race towards Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan.

PA Gov. Wolf: ‘I urge counties to make sure that each vote counts’

Ahead of what could possibly be days of vote counting, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf put out an announcement Sunday urging counties to speak with voters who “have submitted ballots with minor but potentially disqualifying errors as soon as possible and allow them to address those errors so their voices can be heard.”

Undated mail ballots have been the topic of years of authorized confusion in Pennsylvania stemming from the 2020 election. The state’s Supreme Court earlier this month ordered that county elections boards chorus from counting any absentee and mail-in ballots acquired that contained undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes.  The NAACP and different teams have since sued to try to reverse the order.

Weekend news roundup

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