离选举日还有六天，唐纳德·特朗普总统和前副总统乔·拜登将于11月3日竞选，超过7100万美国人已经提前投票目前为止-创纪录。
民调显示，总统在全国和地区都处于落后地位，因此他继续进行积极的、防御性的竞选活动几个战场州他连任希望的关键。周三，他在亚利桑那州连续举行集会。
民主党副总统候选人参议员卡玛拉·哈里斯(Kamala Harris)也在亚利桑那州，在图森和凤凰城停留。拜登将在特拉华州的威尔明顿就他击败新冠肺炎的计划发表讲话。
与此同时，副总统迈克·彭斯在竞争激烈的威斯康星州和密歇根州举行竞选集会。
佛蒙特州要求卡瓦诺法官纠正威斯康辛州的观点
佛蒙特州正式要求布雷特·卡瓦诺法官纠正他对周一最高法院阻止威斯康星州邮件投票截止日期延长的有争议的决定的赞同意见。
虽然他认为法院不应该在大流行期间“事后批评”各州的立法判决，但他试图将威斯康辛州和其他州进行比较，他声称这些州已经决定反对修改邮寄投票规则。
“像佛蒙特州这样的州，”卡瓦诺写道，“已经决定不改变他们的普通选举规则，包括选举日接收缺席选票的截止日期。各州反应的差异反映了我们联邦制的宪法体系。不同的州立法机构可能会做出不同的选择。”
吉姆·沃森/法新社/盖蒂影像公司
2018年10月8日，布雷特·卡瓦诺在华盛顿白宫东厅宣誓就任美国最高法院助理法官。
虽然佛蒙特州确实没有延长对邮寄选票的选举日邮戳要求，但该州实际上对旨在允许公众在公共卫生危机期间更多参与的规则进行了实质性修改，包括向每个选民邮寄选票和预付的回邮信封。
DC官员如何进行签名验证
美国广播公司新闻直播独家报道了华盛顿特区的选举官员如何在计算邮寄选票之前进行签名验证。
训练有素的工作人员手动检查每个手写的脚本，并将其与选民驾照或其他官方记录的电子版本进行视觉比较。
最高法院允许国民大会投票截止日期延长，拒绝共和党的阻止请求
最高法院驳回了共和党提出的阻止北卡罗来纳州邮件投票截止日期延长六天的请求，该截止日期是由州选举委员会规定的。
首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨和大法官布雷特·卡瓦诺加入了自由派大法官的行列。克拉伦斯·托马斯法官、萨缪尔·阿利托法官和尼尔·戈鲁奇法官本应发布紧急禁令。
“这种由基本上不负责任的机构在最后一刻做出的改变会引起混乱，有改变选举结果的风险，并在此过程中威胁到选民对结果的信心，”戈鲁奇在异议中写道。
法院表示，大法官艾米·科尼·巴雷特(Amy Coney Barrett)没有参与裁决，因为“需要迅速解决，而且她没有时间全面审查双方的文件。"
Election 2020 live updates: SCOTUS rejects attempt to block extended ballot deadline
With six days until Election Day, and President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden racing toward Nov. 3, more than 71 million Americans havevoted earlyso far -- a record.
The president continues an aggressive, defensive campaign as polls show him trailing nationally and inseveral battleground stateskey to his reelection hopes. He has back-to-back rallies in Arizona Wednesday.
Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, is also in Arizona making stops in Tucson and Phoenix. Biden will deliver remarks on his plan to beat COVID-19 from Wilmington, Delaware.
Vice President Mike Pence, meanwhile, has campaign rallies in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan.
Vermont asks Justice Kavanaugh to correct Wisconsin opinion
The state of Vermont has formally requested that Justice Brett Kavanaugh correct his concurring opinion from Monday's controversial Supreme Court decision blocking a mail ballot deadline extension in Wisconsin.
While arguing that the court should not "second-guess" state legislative judgements during the pandemic, he attempted to draw a comparison between Wisconsin and other states which he claimed had decided against changes to mail ballot rules.
"States such as Vermont," Kavanaugh wrote, "have decided not to make changes to their ordinary election rules, including to the election-day deadline for receipt of absentee ballots. The variation in state responses reflects our constitutional system of federalism. Different state legislatures may make different choices."
Brett Kavanaugh waits before being sworn-in as Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court in the East room of the White House in Washington, Oct. 8, 2018.
While it's true that Vermont has not extended its Election Day postmark requirement for mail ballots, the state has in fact made substantive changes to the rules aimed at allowing greater participation during a public health crisis, including mailing every voter a ballot and prepaid return envelope.
How DC officials perform signature verifications
ABC News Live got an exclusive look at how election officials in Washington, D.C., perform signature verifications before mail-in ballots are counted.
Trained staff manually inspect each handwritten script and visually compare it to an electronic version associated with the voter's driver's license or other official record.
Supreme Court allows NC ballot deadline extension, rejects GOP request to block
The Supreme Court has denied a GOP request to block a six-day extension of the mail ballot deadlinein North Carolina which was imposed by the state board of elections.
The decision was 5-3, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the liberal justices.Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch would have granted an emergency injunction.
"Such last-minute changes by largely unaccountable bodies invite confusion, risk altering election outcomes, and in the process threaten voter confidence in the results," Gorsuch wrote in the dissent.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett took no part in the decision, the court said, because "of the need for a promptresolution and because she has not had time to fully review the parties’ filings."
Some National Guardsmen to be called up to help at polling places
National Guardsmen will be called up in some states on Election Day as election workers or to facilitate the opening of polling places to help make up for shortfalls of poll workers as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Voters won't know that they are National Guardsmen, however because they're being called to active duty to serve as state government employees helping out on Election Day, so they won't be wearing uniforms or carrying weapons.
Behind the scenes, National Guard cyber units have helped with the security of state computer systems and will be able to help out state IT teams if there are issues on Election Day.
Wisconsin and Tennessee will have National Guardsmen helping out at polling centers. In Wisconsin they'll be working as poll workers and helping with cleaning and providing sanitary supplies to the locations. Guardsmen in Tennessee are not allowed to serve as poll workers, so they'll be facilitating the opening of polling centers.
Nebraska's Maj. Gen. Daryl Bohac reiterated that guardsmen helping out as poll workers will essentially be civilians and if there's a need for security assistance because of violence or a threat of violence, they'll be calling 911 for law enforcement assistance, just like any other civilian.
In Washington state, "the biggest thing they're looking at is potential intrusion into the system. So looking at firewalls, looking at the status of the Vote Washington system," said Brig. Gen. Gent Welsh, Washington's Assistant Adjutant General. "Looking for anomalies in the system, basically typical network hygiene that you would usually expect to see anywhere and in a company, or even in the military."
Election workers verify signatures on returned ballots at the King County Elections office, Oct. 20, 2020, in Renton, Wash.
Washington state is a vote-by-mail state, so on Election Day, Welsh said five guardsmen will be part of the team ensuring that the tabulation of votes is safe.They've been there for the past month preparing for Election Day and they'll remain on duty for four to five days after that to ensure the system's security.Welsh said cyber teams first started working on assessing vulnerabilities to the state's systems. "Most all of it is done over the shoulder of the Secretary of State teams, their own IT staff, teach them how to do these things as well. But again, just another extra set of eyes," he said.
In Tennessee, 30 Guardsmen have been providing "subject matter expertise" ensuring the counties have a "very robust support system" as they upgrade their software and assist with "the basic protocols of insurance," said Maj. Gen. Jeff Holmes, Tennessee's adjutant general.He said that six or seven counties had asked for specific assistance.
Wisconsin's assistant adjutant general, Brig. Gen. Robyn Blader, also added that, "the extent of Wisconsin National Guard's role in the November election, is still being determined."
