That’s nearly 13 times the number of absentee votes compared with the last time the same Senate seat was up six years ago. In total, absentee votes accounted for 3 percent of total votes in each party’s primaries in both 2014 and 2018. And the same dynamic is at play in Florida, where the GOP previously held an edge in absentee votes — including in 2016 — but where Democrats now have a sizable edge, 1.6 million to 1.2 million. Particularly in states that have robust early voting, the partisan mix of absentee votes is perhaps less of a concern. )”Starting today, a new data reporting protocol for hospitals will eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a recipient of state coronavirus data.

Source: Washington Post July 15, 2020 12:33 UTC