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welcome to the good news ride home for Friday, June 26th, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

The church created to circumvent a loophole in Tennessee's elections.

VR is getting smell of vision, but smelling things is not actually the point. How to prevent your glasses from

fogging up when you wear a mask? And a website that aims to combine the best of old-fashioned

TV channel surfing and the weird wonders of the web. Here are some of the cool things from the

news today. Many states here in the U.S. have been accepting absentee ballots from all residents regardless

of reason. Here in New York, we got sent in application with affected by COVID-19 as a valid

reason for not being able to go to the polls and a note that basically said anything counts

as being affected by it, not just actually having it.

Other states have been more resistant to hop on the mail-in voter bandwagon, however.

Tennessee, for example, like New York, requires a valid reason to request an absentee ballot.

Unlike New York, however, they didn't give everyone a free pass because of COVID-19.

Accepted reasons to request an absentee ballot in Tennessee include being out of the country

on Election Day, being over the age of 60, having a physical disability and an inaccessible

polling place, or if you're observing a religious holiday that prevents you

from voting in person during the early voting period and on election day. And it's that last one

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