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There’s a lot of talk right now about how we get our vote to the ballot box. Is in-person or mail-in voting safer? Are dead people voting? And why don’t we vote online? Here’s what you need to know about how we vote, explained with some of our favorite old-school video games.

More than 102,000 mail-in ballots were rejected by California election officials after the March primaries, largely due to not following deadline and signature requirements.

The ballot has long been the essential instrument of democracy.

Campaigning in a normal year is hard enough, but campaigning for state office in the middle of a pandemic has created all sorts of issues for candidates. Those hurdles are even harder for candidates still trying to get on the ballot. Going out and asking someone to sign a piece of paper isn’t as easy as it used to...