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Monday Sunrise Briefing: When democracy hangs on snail mail

The buzz this weekend was all about trust in the November election results. For different reasons, Republican and Democratic leaders are questioning the credibility of mail-in voting. Democrats say President Trump is deliberately undermining a vote delivery system during a pandemic. But White House officials on Sunday said it was too late to safely expand vote by mail (beyond the nine states that now have universal mail-in voting). “If you have a tried-and-true system, where there are some security mechanisms built in, that’s acceptable,  President Trump’s

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