An election worker places a mail-in ballot into an election box at a drive-through drop-off site at the Registrar of Voters in San Diego, California
VOA/AP: Will Mail-In Voting in US Turn Election Day Into Election Week?
A shift to mail voting is increasing the chances that Americans will not know the winner of November's presidential race on election night, a scenario that is fueling worries about whether President Donald Trump will use the delay to sow doubts about the results.
State election officials in some key battleground states have recently warned that it may take days to count what they expect will be a surge of ballots sent by mail out of concern for safety amid the pandemic. In an election as close as 2016's, a delayed tally in key states could keep news organizations from calling a winner.
"It may be several days before we know the outcome of the election," Jocelyn Benson, Michigan's Democratic secretary of state, said in an interview. "We have to prepare for that now and accept that reality."
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WNU Editor: For those who feel confident that mass mail-in voting will work, here is a sobering example on what happens when it does not work .... NJ NAACP Leader Calls For Paterson Mail-In Vote to Be Canceled Amid Corruption Claims (NBC New York). More here .... In Paterson, a Lesson in how not to Hold a City Election (Insider NJ). Now what would happen if this small case is then amplified in a Presidential election? Yeeah!
