Daily Digest for October 13, 2020 Posted at 7:45 a.m. by Michael Olson |
Good morning, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., called the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett a "sham" while using most of her opening statement at the hearing to blast her Republican colleagues and President Trump. Klobuchar said that instead of rushing ahead to fill a Supreme Court seat so soon before an election, the Senate should be working on passing coronavirus relief legislation. -- Ron Blitzer, Fox News
🎧 Tune in for live coverage of the hearing starting at 8 a.m. this morning.
President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden rallied supporters in swing states Monday and continue to maintain an active campaign schedule with only a few weeks until election day. -- Ayesha Rascoe, NPR
Registering online to vote and get an absentee ballot is easy in Minnesota — as long as English is your dominant language. If not, that online process can be a frustrating experience, one that advocates fear is keeping eligible Minnesotans from voting this fall. Registering at the Minnesota Secretary of State website in a language other than English requires access to a home office, tech savvy and English skills. Voters will need these things to print a PDF file or to convert it into a Microsoft Word document and then return the form by email, fax or mail, hurdles that people who can register in English don’t face.
Data from the Secretary of State’s office shows non-English language voter information web pages were accessed almost 60,000 times from May to September. However, PDF forms to apply for the absentee ballots in that same time period were only accessed 1,676 times.
Online registration is especially important this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. -- Kathryn Styer Martinez, MPR News
Unauthorized election ballot drop boxes have been found across California — in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties as well as in Fresno. On Monday, California's Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Attorney General Xavier Becerra sent out cease-and-desist letters to the state Republican Party, which appears to own at least some of these collection boxes. -- Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR
Find guides to absentee voting, candidates and our full Election 2020 coverage here.
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