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Voting rights has become a hot topic in the twenty,

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twenty election because of the pen demi moore states are moving towards mail-in

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ballots and that has sparked lost one-sided the issue says mail-in ballots are

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bright for voter fraud while the other side says the improve voting access for people of

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lower-income during append them each the likes of which hasn't been seen

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in more than a century mail-in ballots could be a lynch pin of the twenty,

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twenty elections a handful of states plan to send absentee ballots to voters before

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the primaries many of which were delayed because of the covert nineteen outbreak that plan

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may be expanded to the presidential election in the fall before the endemic thirty four states

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in washington dc allowed absentee voting by mail and the other sixteen

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states voters had to provide an excuse for why they can't vote in person corona virus is one

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of the accept excuses for some of these states however that's mostly for the

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primaries it could be extended to the november election only five states

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all in the south...not taken action to expand vote by mail some states

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including oregon and washington said they'll conduct...elections entirely by mail in

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california two-thirds of voters voted by mail before the pandemonium the state wants to move

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to an all-male in system in november but lawsuits are trying to stop that from happening

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the spanish influenza pandemonium of nineteen eighteen also affected

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an election the second wave peaked in some regions during october and november of

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that year around the time of the mid-term elections november fifth...went on

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...some states advise people to wear masks to the polls and not congregate before or

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after an early version of social distancing the spanish flip endemic killed about six

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hundred thousand americans when voting by mail...wasn't an option.