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It’s been a Pennsylvania Primary like no other amid a backdrop of civil unrest and a pandemic. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk speaks to voters about the changing times.

Pennsylvania is undertaking a primary election Tuesday amid civil unrest, the coronavirus pandemic, the introduction of new voting machines in some counties and the debut of mail-in balloting that has pushed county election bureaus to their limits.

Some lawmakers want Congress to allow remote voting in the House and Senate as the coronavirus spreads around the country.

The state Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to force Pennsylvania elections officials to accept absentee or mail-in ballots as long as they are received within a week after the primary or general elections during the pandemic.

Atlantic City will fight its way through the coronavirus pandemic and attempt to rebuild its devastated casino-based economy under its current form of government.

The coronavirus pandemic will have major effects on how and where people will vote. NBC10’s Deanna Durante explains.

“It’s quite likely you will not be voting where you’re used to voting,” Montgomery County Commissioner Dr. Val Arkoosh said Friday. NBC10 reporter Deanna Durante has the details.

Election officials in some states are scaling back or eliminating opportunities for people to cast ballots in person in favor of voting exclusively by mail, as an effort to address concerns about voting during a global pandemic

A voter initiative led by Michelle Obama has come out in support of making it easier for people to register to vote and cast ballots during the coronavirus pandemic

Questions are arising regarding how voters will be kept safe during the primaries for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware as well as during the general election amid the coronavirus pandemic. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk investigates.

Voters donning masks and gloves waited on long lines to cast their ballot as Wisconsin held its primary election on Tuesday despite a statewide stay-at-home order.

The coronavirus outbreak is giving new momentum to Democrats’ argument elections should be conducted by mail

The mayor of Kansas City struggled to vote Tuesday in the Missouri presidential primary.

A man intentionally backed his car into a St. Louis polling station on Tuesday and then started throwing liquid on voting machines, police said. Get the full story at NBCNews.com.

A new LX/Morning Consult poll shows that young people and people of color say they are more likely to vote if Election Day were held on a weekend rather than a Tuesday. But many older white voters say changing the day would not impact their likelihood of turning out. LX’s Noah Pransky examines the reasons for the discrepancies.

The Florida Supreme Court sided with Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday in a legal dispute over restoring voting rights to felons with unpaid fines. The court’s advisory opinion — requested by the Republican governor last year — has no immediate legal consequence, but could influence federal judges weighing legal wranglings over the voter-approved ballot measure known as Amendment 4.

While calls have grown louder to change the order in which states make their presidential primary picks, America doesn’t seem overwhelmingly concerned with the stranglehold Iowa and New Hampshire have on the start of the nomination process. According to a new poll from LX and Morning Consult, 59% of U.S. adults say they’re satisfied with Iowa getting the first caucus...

Pennsylvania’s state elections agency is providing guidance to county officials about the state’s new law allowing people to vote early by mail for any reason. The Department of State on Friday issued the six-page document that describes the new rules and offers suggestions about how to administer them.

Owners of electric vehicles in a number of states will start seeing fees to pay for road repairs in the new year. At least eight states will begin charging new or higher registration fees Wednesday for electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids. The new fees mean that, for the first time, a majority of states will assess special fees on gas-free...

Yolanda Avila and Andres Pico are friends who sit next to each other on the Colorado Springs’ city council. But politically the two couldn’t be further apart — Avila is a durable Democrat and Pico an unflinching Republican. It’s a split that’s common across the country, as Hispanics are divided along gender lines. Overall, Latinos are far more likely...