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Most Americans Think It Will Be At Least 6 Months Before A Return To Normal From COVID-19

By PBS Newshour May 20, 2020

Signage reminds people to social distance on Lincoln Mall, May 20, 2020 in Miami Beach, Florida. The city of Miami Beach is allowing non-essential "retail stores, personal grooming establishments, offices and museums" to reopen staring today.

Most Americans think it will take six months or longer for daily life to return to a relative sense of normal, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. And as states begin the process of reopening, a majority of Americans are worried about a second wave of COVID-19 infections, too.Read More

New Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Mail Voting As Pandemic Changes Public Life

By NPR News April 28, 2020

Voting pins and stickers lie next to a ballot box earlier this year during early voting at the King County Elections

Despite a partisan divide over increasing absentee voting, about half of all Republicans support universal access to a mail ballot, according a new Pew Research poll.Read More

IDs Of Many Native Americans Won’t Be Accepted At North Dakota Polling Places

By NPR News October 13, 2018

This June, instructions were posted at an early voting precinct in Bismarck, N.D. In that primary election, tribal IDs that did not show residential addresses were accepted as voter ID. But those same IDs will not be accepted in the general election. CREDIT: James MacPherson/AP

The Supreme Court has upheld a state law requiring voters' IDs to have street addresses, which many reservations do not use. Native American groups are now scrambling to prepare for Election Day.Read More