Good morning. 
Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of ninety. Sunrise is 6:12 AM and sunset 7:41 PM, for 13h 28m 41s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 35.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand three hundred eighty-fifth day.
Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets via audio visual conferencing at 4:30 PM, and the Whitewater Unified School District’s board via audio visual conferencing at 7 PM.
On this day in 1909, workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
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Elsie Viebeck reports More than 500,000 mail ballots were rejected in the primaries. That could make the difference in battleground states this fall:
More than 534,000 mail ballots were rejected during primaries across 23 states this year — nearly a quarter in key battlegrounds for the fall — illustrating how missed delivery deadlines, inadvertent mistakes and uneven enforcement of the rules could disenfranchise voters and affect the outcome of the presidential election.
The rates of rejection, which in some states exceeded those of other recent elections, could make a difference in the fall if the White House contest is decided by a close margin, as it was in 2016, when Donald Trump won Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by roughly 80,000 votes.
This year, according to a tally by The Washington Post, election officials in those three states tossed out more than 60,480 ballots just during primaries, which saw significantly lower voter turnout than what is expected in the general election. The rejection figures include ballots that arrived too late to be counted or were invalidated for another reason, including voter error.
Amanda Carpenter explains How newsrooms should handle GOP convention disinformation:
Amanda Carpenter says TV networks should expect that the GOP convention will be a “major medical and political disinformation event” and fact-check accordingly.
Tory Newmyer writesTrump’s call for Goodyear boycott joins long history of bullying companies that cross him:
Notwithstanding his vocal criticism of “cancel culture,” Trump has been calling for boycotts of popular American companies since before he took office. The roster of outfits he has urged consumers to stiff-arm now includes Macy’s, Harley-Davidson, the National Football League, AT&T, and Glenfiddich scotch, and a host of media providers and outlets, including Comcast, HBO, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, CNBC, Univision, the Dallas Morning News, and the Arizona Republic. CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale has assembled a working list of 30 such names.
Taken together, the president’s appeals for politically motivated boycotts not only undermine his criticism of those on the left who embrace such tactics. More importantly, they represent a frontal assault on the idea that government shouldn’t winners and losers in the marketplace — a notion that has been a first principle for conservatives.
“It’s inappropriate for the president to do this,” Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, tells me. “It’s bad for the economy and for longer-term prosperity if companies are making business decisions on whether they’re going to win favor with or upset the president. They should be making business decisions based on business considerations.”
Belarus protests: Thousands of demonstrators march into independence square in Minsk: