Results not expected for days in tight primaries next week
Source: Politico
Some of the most consequential primaries of the 2020 election are on deck next week.
But don’t wait up Tuesday night expecting all the results.
Voting in Kentucky and New York, where progressives are trying to score big victories, will be chaotic. Many voters will likely vote by mail, but in-person voting could be plagued by shuttered polling places, long lines and other impediments created as a result of social distancing guidelines.
It all means that final results will be delayed for days — if not weeks — as both states grapple with how to hold an election in pandemic. Some of Kentucky’s largest counties — which will only have one voting center open on Tuesday — are going to the extreme step of locking down their totals of in-person votes for a week, until they can tally the mail ballots as well.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/06/18/results-not-expected-for-days-in-tight-primaries-next-week-1293792
More people have requested absentee ballots in 2020 than voted in the 2016 Primary.
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