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At least 74,000 absentee ballot requests submitted by voters in three Iowa counties will remain invalid because of technical problems with the paperwork, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Read More

CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein reacts to NBC hosting President Trump’s town hall at the same time ABC is scheduled to host Joe Biden’s television event. Read More

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to put an end to any pre-election prospects for President Donald Trump’s latest big stimulus proposal on Thursday, saying he had no plans to bring to the floor any package at $1.8 trillion or above. Read More

Arizona is a 2020 swing state, despite voting Republican in every presidential election since 1996. CNN’s John King explains why. Read More

• Live updates: Final hearing is over • Analysis: Murky answers, clear philosophy • Opinion: Women, we’re in the fight of our lives Read More

More than 17 million ballots across 43 states have already been cast in the 2020 election, a stunning testament to what could be a a historically high voter turnout fueled by a series of state law changes that allow more mail-in balloting with the coronavirus pandemic still gripping the country. Read More

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are expected to participate in competing town halls on Thursday, the same day both presidential candidates were originally scheduled to debate. Read More

Almost 1,000 absentee ballots are sitting in a locked bin somewhere in the Guilford County Board of Elections waiting to be processed. Read More

What’s worse: no presidential debate at all or separate and unequal events staged at exactly the same time with a media outlet putting both thumbs on the scale to favor one candidate over the other? Read More