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No-Excuse Absentee Voting, Pondered by Delaware Panel

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DOVER, Del. (AP) - Members of a task force charged with reviewing Delaware's election laws for possible changes are finishing up work on a report that is scheduled to be submitted to state lawmakers later this month.

Among the issues still being discussed by the panel, which meets Wednesday in Dover, are allowing no-excuse absentee voting and early voting.

Panel members previously agreed to recommend that the three county elections boards be eliminated in favor of a single state elections board.

Officials also are weighing whether to recommend that primary elections, now held in September, be moved to the second Tuesday in August.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.