Gov. Newsom orders new California in-person voting rules for November election

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Gavin Newsom gave California counties permission on Wednesday to limit their in-person voting operations for the Nov. 3 election as protection against the spread of the coronavirus - but only if they also offer three days of early voting, a tradeoff some local officials said could be expensive and challenging.

The decision, detailed in an executive order, came almost one month after Newsom instructed California counties to mail each of the state's 20.6 million voters an absentee ballot for the upcoming election. In doing so, he noted that