Will we know on election night whether Trump or Biden won?

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Will we know on election night whether Trump or Biden won?
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With a record number of mail-in ballots, a Postal Service in disarray and herds of lawyers waiting in the wings, the outlook for a clean winner on Election Night is far from certain.

that a"system that's fair" will only happen if"we know who the president of the United States is on election night.""This president is obviously going to play whatever games are available to him to try to cloud the results of this election," Sen. Chris Murphy toldRepublicans on Capitol Hill, similar to their Democratic colleagues, are wary of what a delayed election result could mean.

"Ideally, I think one of the recommendations is that people put deadlines for submission of ballots like a week or two beforehand," Sen. Bill Cassidy toldThe U.S. Postal Office has become hamstrung with major delivery delays in recent months.

Two states—Louisiana and Mississippi—mandate that mail-in ballots be received one day prior to the election. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia, including the battlegrounds of North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia, require a postmark by Election Day, and the deadline for the receipt of the ballot by election officials runs from one to 17 days after the election.

"Get it in in a reasonable length of time so that it does get there by Election Day," the South Dakota Republican said."That eliminates that possibility."

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