Associated Press

More than 1.7 million of the applicants are registered Democrats, about 641,000 are registered Republicans, and 284,000 are independent or third party voters.

Melissa Szymanski spent five hours in a Hartford, Connecticut, emergency room in late March and wound up with bills totaling about $3,200.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said recovery from the coronavirus pandemic has been “the most unequal recovery in American history.” Workers in high-wage jobs are doing fine, he said, “but what did the bottom half get?”

The judge said the Trump campaign has failed to prove that drop boxes for mail-in ballots and satellite election offices are at risk of fraud.

Republicans had planned to create an election panel with subpoena power to review the election, but Gov. Tom Wolf and others said it was “an attempt to steal the election.”

The judge ruled that Pennsylvania law does not allow campaign representatives to observe in satellite election offices.

More than 1,300 people tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 for two days in a row, and the average daily number of new cases is up by more than 36%.

House Republicans held an internal conference call to discuss the idea of giving counties four or five days to process mail-in ballots before Election Day.

The governor’s new limits employ a sliding scale, linked to the size of the crowd and the capacity of the venue.

Election lawyers, city officials and the state’s top elections official all say that there is no right under Pennsylvania law, even for a certified poll watcher, to watch people do things like register to vote or fill out a mail-in ballot.