Here's your WORT Local News for Thursday, October 1st, 2020: Wisconsin suffered its largest single-day increase in COVID-related deaths yesterday; with 34 days left to election day and absentee voting in full swing, Madison officials are pushing back against Republican challenges to absentee voting; Wisconsin hits another record number of coronavirus cases and in the second half, Radio Chipstone takes a break from this week’s hectic news cycle to examine the peaceful art of ropemaking.