Pennsylvania’s counties have starkly different plans for when they will begin processing their pre-Election Day ballots, with Democratic strongholds moving to get them counted as quickly as possible while other areas plan to tally in-person votes first. Unlike most states, Pennsylvania law does not allow officials to start processing early ballots until 7 a.m. on…… MORE
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Trump uses outdated thinking in attempt to woo suburban women: I’m ‘getting your husbands back to work’
President Donald Trump offered his latest appeal to suburban women Tuesday evening, promising to get their husbands “back to work” if he’s reelected. Claiming he was “saving suburbia” at a campaign rally in Lansing, Michigan, the President pitched himself as the candidate for suburban women voters because he’s “getting your kids back to school” and…… MORE
New York Times: Tax records show Trump had over $270 million in debt forgiven after failing to repay lenders
President Donald Trump has had more than $270 million in debt forgiven since 2010 after he failed to repay his lenders for a Chicago skyscraper development, The New York Times reported Tuesday. An analysis of his tax records by the Times shows that after the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago encountered financial problems,…… MORE
Court sets plan to make sure Postal Service delivers ballots quickly, one week ahead of Election Day
US Postal Service leadership received a sweeping set of orders from a federal judge on Tuesday, laying out steps the Postal Service must take to ensure that ballots are delivered quickly as voters ace absentee voting deadlines. One week from Election Day, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the DC District Court told the Postal Service to…… MORE
Trump campaign website briefly defaced in cyber attack
President Donald Trump’s campaign website was defaced for a brief period on Tuesday in a hack. A message was posted to the upcoming events page of Donaldjtrump.com that said the world had “had enough” of the “fake news” spread by Trump. “Earlier this evening, the Trump campaign website was defaced and we are working with…… MORE
White House lists ending Covid-19 pandemic as an accomplishment despite cases spiking to record levels
The White House included ending the coronavirus pandemic on a list of the Trump administration’s science and technology accomplishments, despite nearly half a million Americans tested positive for Covid-19 in just the last week. A White House Office of Science and Technology Policy news release made the claim in announcing a document highlighting the administration’s…… MORE
Pre-election voting surpasses half of all 2016 ballots cast with week left until Election Day
Pre-election voting for the November election has surpassed half of all ballots cast in the 2016 presidential election with a week left until Election Day. More than 68.5 million Americans have voted so far with seven days to go until November 3, according to a survey of election officials in all 50 states and Washington,…… MORE
READ: Texas Supreme Court ruling on limiting ballot drop boxes to one per county
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to limit mail-in ballot drop box locations to one per county, a decision that largely affects the Houston and Austin areas. Read the opinion:… MORE
Texas Supreme Court sides with governor on rule requiring one ballot drop box per county
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to limit mail-in ballot drop box locations to one site per county, a decision that largely affects the Houston and Austin areas. The court ruled that Abbott’s order “provides Texas voters more ways to vote in the November 3 election…… MORE
Fact check: Trump campaign deceptively snips video of Biden quoting the Pope
The Trump campaign’s “war room” Twitter account has been serially dishonest, repeatedly taking quotes from former Vice President Joe Biden and other Democrats out of context. The account did it again on Tuesday. In a Tuesday speech in Georgia, Biden, a churchgoing Catholic, quoted from an encyclical published by Pope Francis in early October. In…… MORE
