Voter Taylor Miller prepares to solid his poll throughout early voting on the King County Elections processing heart on March 09, 2020 in Renton, Washington. Early major voting continued in Washington State, with a lot of the ballots submitted by mail.
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Major Election Day may have been quite a bit worse for officers in Washington state, epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak: The state votes fully by mail.
Elsewhere, giant occasions, comparable to elections, have been trigger for alarm. Well being officers on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention have offered steerage for cleansing voting machines and different know-how more likely to be current at polling websites.
However in Washington, considered one of six states voting Tuesday, the considerations related to the first have been extra muted. Voters are being instructed to not seal their envelopes with a lick.
"Whether or not wholesome or sick, please do not lick," reads a graphic posted to Twitter by an account run by the workplace of Washington...
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