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By WTOP Staff

The 2020 election season has likely been the longest and strangest in a lifetime.

The coronavirus pandemic has made this election like no other, and an unprecedented number of ballots across the country, including in the D.C. area, have already been cast by mail or by being deposited in a drop box.

Voting sites are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the District and Maryland, and 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Virginia.

Follow our live coverage from around the D.C.-area from WTOP’s team of reporters and our news partners at CBS News.

MORE ELECTION NEWS

Voters in Manchester choose a mayor to replace Andy Burnham, who left city hall for Downing Street

By The Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Voters in the English city of Manchester are electing a new mayor Thursday to replace Andy Burnham, who quit the job to become Britain’s prime minister. It’s also chance for some 2 million voters to pass judgment on the governing Labour Party, whose sagging popularity Burnham hopes to revive. Polling stations are open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., with vote-counting starting Friday morning. Burnham was mayor of Greater Manchester for nine years until he won a special election for a seat in Parliament last month with the intention of challenging then- Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership. Burnham’s momentum spurred Starmer to announce he would resign after just two years in office. Burnham was the only candidate in Labour’s leadership election, and he became prime minister on July 20.
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