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Joe biden good afternoon, everyone. Let me say to the press, im going to make a short statement here and going over to vote with my wife. I will be happy to take your questions after i vote. I just completed another Public Health briefing with my team of Public Health experts. We looked at the latest reported data and how it indicates that we are on an upward slope of a bigger wave of confirmed infections than anything we experienced to date. We talked about what actions would be needed to turn this around and how we made worse by the administrations declaration of surrender to the virus. We discussed the vital importance of wearing masks, protecting yourself, protecting your neighbors, and to save around 100,000 lives in the months ahead between now and just after the first of the year. This is not political. Its patriotic. Wearing a mask. Wear one. Period. We focused on the w ....
Ballots directly to the registrars office. In Santa Clara County, more than 437,000 people have cast their ballots. About half, about 220,000, have put their ballots not in the mail but directly into drop boxes. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro is live at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters in san jose with more on that. And marianne, people want to make sure they get in and their votes count. Reporter they are very concerned about that, janelle. If you look here, this is where people drop off their ballots at the registrar of Voters Office. Many people we talked with today felt that their vote would be secure if they dropped it off at this specific location. 13 miles, thats how far ted and carol bautista drove today to turn in their ballots at the drop bo ....