Edwards asks judge to widen absentee balloting for elections

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Gov. John Bel Edwards is asking a federal judge to order Louisiana’s elections chief to broaden the use of absentee-by-mail voting for the fall elections because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Democratic governor filed the request with the court Wednesday evening in an ongoing lawsuit …

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