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GOP senators reject wider mail-in vote for Louisiana primary

by Associated Press
| April 15, 2020 1:03 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican state senators on Wednesday blocked an emergency plan to expand early voting and mail-in balloting options for Louisiana's July presidential primary, rejecting calls to increase vote-by-mail options for people worried about the risk of exposure to the coronavirus in one of the nation’s larger outbreaks.

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