Virginia is the first state to allow early in-person voting, a milestone moment six weeks before election day.

Across the country, local election directors are beefing up their security to keep their workers and polling places safe while also ensuring that ballots and voting procedures won’t be tampered with.

Georgia's Republican-controlled state election board was preparing to vote on Friday on whether to require a labor-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November's election, a move voting rights advocates say could cause delays,