Inside a US mail-in voting facility
29 October 2020 |
2:40 pm
Record numbers of Americans have been voting by mail ahead of next week's crunch US elections, as people seek to avoid crowded polling stations during the Covid-19 pandemic. For those processing the votes, it's a major logistical challenge.
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