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A Texas law requires that people provide either a partial Social Security number or a driver’s license number on their application for a mail-in ballot — and that number has to match the identification on their voter registration.
The problem is this: A lot of people don’t remember what form of ID they put on their registration. That’s especially true if they registered to vote decades ago.

Some of the changes will result in increased transit times for cross-country and other long-distance deliveries. The price increases will not affect shipping for international products.

Louis DeJoy is testifying about shortfalls at the U.S. Postal Service. Despite calls for his resignation, DeJoy say he plans to follow through on an overhaul plan. “Get used to me,” he said.

Parts of the presidential battleground states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio fell short of delivery goals by wide margins as the agency struggles to regain its footing after a tumultuous summer.

The latest hearing on accusations that postal service cuts are slowing down the mail and threatening the integrity of the presidential election. took place in federal court in Philadelphia, where the attorneys general from Pennsylvania and five other states, as well as the District of Columbia have sued.

Data obtained by The Associated Press shows postal districts across the country are missing by wide margins the agency’s own goals for on-time delivery, raising the possibility that scores of mailed ballots could miss deadlines for reaching local election offices if voters wait too long.

A Pittsburgh representative for postal workers said employees worry that the politicized debate over voting by mail and funding for the postal service may have already impacted the public’s view of the institution.

Dentists have been locked in a fierce battle with mail-order orthodontics company Smile Direct Club for years now. If that’s news to you, it may be because dentists, I learned, are mild-mannered, solitary creatures.