What's typically regarded as election night could drag on for a week or longer, as the coronavirus pandemic changes voting habits and as problems at the U.S. Postal Service slow mail-in ballot delivery, experts warn.
The fear of the potential of voter fraud is "overblown," said Capri Cafaro, executive in residence at the American University School of Public Affairs and former Democratic leader of the Ohio State Senate.
"If it's close, we have recount rules that require that the ballots be sent back through machines and so forth," MacManus said. "So delays would probably be related to Florida's size and its closeness and the magnitude of those votes that cannot be counted on election night by law."found that nearly 76% of Americans are able to receive a ballot by mail this year, the highest in U.S. history.
the USPS, burdened by financial problems, may not be able to handle a large volume of mail-in ballots this November. Beyond overtime, the USPS is taking about 500 letter-sorting machines out of commission, a figure that makes up almost 15% of the machines,"It is hard to tell the ability to be able to count the ballots on time, simply because there seems to be some questions surrounding what's happening with the Post Office now," Cafaro said. "I think that certainly it's up to the Trump administration and Congress to ensure that the U.S. Postal Service is up to the task.
"If you just look at news coverage of election 2020, it's evident that the news media and election officials are trying to prepare the public for the fact that we may not know on election night, or even a few weeks after that, who won," MacManus said. "A lot of it will be the process itself. Accounting and verification or what we call certification processes."
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