The Louisiana Secretary of State's office is expanding who can get an absentee ballot for the November election. The secretary made the announcement this morning on WWL.
Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin said an attorney general's opinion has given them guidance, to let people who can show they have a co-morbidity that puts them at greater risk of bad outcomes from COVID-19 to get an absentee ballot.
"As long as their physician provides them with documentation or a prescription that says they are temporarily disabled due to the COVID situation," said Ardoin.
Ardoin, a Republican, says politics had nothing to do with the earlier roll back -- and it was about election policy.
"Quite frankly, you know, you look at the most conservative bloc of voters are 65 and older, and they're the vast majority of those folks that are voting by absentee ballot," he said.