Also: Mass. voters hope for unity after the election; the wait for more election results
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 November 5, 2020
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| Good Morning Boston,
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We're in for another day of wishing, waiting and hoping for more election results. Here's what you need to know:
- Last night, the AP called Michigan for Biden, bringing his electoral count to 264, per the AP. That means Biden is six electoral votes – the equivalent of Nevada – away from winning this race. President Trump is currently at 214 and would need a sweep of the last four states to secure a victory. You can follow our live results map here (we automatically update it every 30 seconds), but when we know who has reached the magic winning number of 270 electoral votes, we'll let you know in an email alert ASAP.
- As the vote counting process continues, Trump and his campaign officials have some major (baseless) concerns about the counting of mail-in votes in the Midwest and southeast. He's asking for a recount in Wisconsin and has filed lawsuits in competitive states like Arizona and Georgia in hopes to declare legal votes that were being counted after the polls had closed invalid.
- Let's zoom in a little: Sec. of State William Galvin has been a proponent of mail-in ballots and counting every vote in Massachusetts from the start. Yesterday, he called President Trump's claims about mail-in ballots "deceitful." He thinks vote-by-mail was a huge success for Massachusetts and wants to make the process permanent here.
- And in Boston, several hundred people gathered for two post-election rallies yesterday to support the counting of all votes nationwide. U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, fresh off his own win, appeared at the event.
- ICYMI: We were still waiting on a few local races and calls as of yesterday morning. Here's what's happened. Voters officially rejected Question 2, which proposed using ranked-choice voting in Massachusetts, according to the AP. And in Maine, Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins clinched her fifth term.
- While all eyes were on the election, the pandemic reared its ugly head again. Massachusetts reported more than 1,600 new positive cases of the coronavirus yesterday. It's the highest single-day total since mid-May. The seven-day hospitalization average is also up to 437 patients – a number that has been rising for the past two-and-a-half weeks.
P.S.– Here's a quick reminder: The state's new restrictions to combat this recent rise in coronavirus cases starts at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow morning. This includes a stricter mask requirement, a 9:30 p.m. end time for most indoor activities and businesses, a stay-at-home advisory, and smaller gathering sizes. If you want to stay updated on what communities are in the red, new safety orders and efforts to curb the spread locally, sign up for our weekly coronavirus newsletter. — Meagan McGinnes
@meaganmcginnes
newsletters@wbur.org
The Rundown 1. 3 Takeaways From Election Day In Massachusetts
There weren't many surprises in Massachusetts' election results this year, but there's more to learn from the votes than just the clear-cut wins and losses. Here are three takeaways from parsing the numbers and studying the map of town-by-town results. Read more. | 
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2. 'Do Better': Mass. Voters Hope To See Unity After Election Results
"I'm almost 70 years old and I've got a disease," one voter shared with WBUR. "It's going to probably going to kill me within a year or so now — maybe two years, maybe five. Who knows? But it just breaks my heart to see people that love each other getting in violent arguments over all this stuff. It's just like, what happened to bipartisanship? It doesn't exist anymore?" Read more.
3. After High Profile Fight To Overturn Rape Conviction, Benjamin LaGuer Has Died
LaGuer insisted he was wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting a Leominster neighbor in 1983. DNA testing in 2002 linked him to the rape. The Department of Correction says LaGuer died of liver disease at the state Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Wednesday. Read more.
4. What We Know About The Latino Vote In Some Key States
Nationally, Biden appears to have gotten support from roughly twice as many Latino voters as President Trump, but that support looked very different depending on where you looked in three key states with large Latino populations. Read more.
5. Philadelphia Police Release 'Traumatic' Bodycam Video Of Walter Wallace Jr. Shooting
The Philadelphia Police Department also released multiple 911 calls made by neighbors and Wallace's own family, pleading for help as the 27-year-old experienced a violent psychological episode. Read more.
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- And an opinion piece to get you thinking: We’ve all witnessed what damage the president is capable of inflicting to others and to the office he holds, writes Alysia Abbott in this commentary. But still more than 67 million people said, yes, that’s my guy. How did this country become my country?
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