And larryt nbc news norden, the director of the Election Reform Program at the Brennan Center for justice. Just a reminder, if you have questions as we chat, feel free to drop them into the chat below. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment, and with coronavirus, more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots or voting early. Alternatives to our usual voting methods, a lot of people are asking will voting become digital, as well . Thent to kick off conversation by asking, why would we even want online voting . My bias is coming from seattle where we have a robust mailin ballot system, and the process is already quite easy. Im curious what the conversation would look like around, why do we need this kind of technology . I think the appeal is in normas. Is enormous. In theory, it has largely been attempted in this country for military deployed service members. It could be used for people with disabilities who dont have a lot of ease getting to the polls. If we somehow had a robust on
Still not many people. We will be tracking this story throughout our three hours. Nearly half a Million People will be returning to work in the city. And they are returning to work, by the way, to a city whose mayor is pushing to defund the Police Department in the wake of the george floyd protests. A lot of pushback on this, as you can imagine. We will get into it. Including from the president. He tweeted this just moments ago. Law and order, not defund and abolish the police. The radical left democrats have gone crazy. And Hillary Clinton, by the way, well, shes had another deplorables moment when speaking about trump reporters and we will have that for you as well. Im Ashley Webster. The big story for dyou today on monday, the markets pointing upwards. Varney Company Begins right now. This will go down in history as the biggest positive data shock for the markets and the economy. Its some combination of an incredibly resilient economy thats bouncing back, the impact of government me
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Group, reports Public Health officials in bay area counties are planning to extend the shelter in place order to may 1st. The official announcement could be made some time this week. At last check, there were close to 2,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the bay area. 49 people have died. Starting today in San Francisco, muni is stopping Light Rail Service and closed all of its subway stations and replaced trains with buses. This just in, a new opening date has been set for the tokyo summer olympics. The Opening Ceremony is expected to take place july 23rd next year. Thats 2021. So, big news for that, reggie. And relief is coming here for Health Care Workers on the front lines of covid19. Today Governor Newsom is expected to announce an initiative to boost the workforce. Right now Health Care Workers are working very long hours as we know. Starting this week Governor Newsom is scheduled to take up an update on the pandemic and he will do this every day at noon going forward. A secon
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