CORONAVIRUS WILL FORCE CHANGES AT POLLING PLACES THIS YEAR

LINCOLN - Election Day in the time of the coronavirus will be different. All registered voters in Nebraska will receive an invitation to vote by mail, if they wish, in order to avoid crowd contact at polling places.

But polling places will be carefully sanitized for the May 12 election and social distancing standards — at least 6 feet of separation — will be applied.

Lancaster County Election Commissioner David Shively is sending out 140,000 invitations to registered voters to apply for mail ballots this year, in addition to the 31,000 mailed to voters whose names are on the permanent early vote list.

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