This election is all about who gets to vote
This election is all about who gets to vote
By Paul Waldman, Opinion writer, the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/25/this-election-is-all-about-who-gets-vote/
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Then comes Election Day itself. Whether Trump likes it or not, this year there will be more ballots cast by mail than ever before. One of the consequences is that counting the results will take substantially longer than usual, since mail-in ballots take more work to record than votes cast at polling places, where they are quickly read by machine and tallied.
That means it’s entirely possible that we won’t know who won for days. In the key swing state of Pennsylvania, for instance, this is the first year they’re using no-excuse absentee voting, so election officials will be dealing with more mail ballots than they ever have before. No one seems to think they’re ready, and the consequence could be a lengthy delay in determining a winner.
Imagine what Trump will be doing if it’s the day after the election and votes are still being counted in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona. Will he be shouting that the election is in the process of being stolen? Will he be encouraging violent protests against election officials?
And then, if former vice president Joe Biden is declared the winner, we can be sure the Republican Party will file lawsuits seeking to have the results overturned. The conservative majority on the Supreme Court handed them a victory in 2000. What’s to stop them from doing it again, especially if multiple states are in dispute?
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