Early on election night, Trump will come out and declare victory...

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. The problem may be that with a lot of absentee votes, it won't be clear on the night

especially if Republicans favour in-person voting, which seems likely (since Trump is hypnotising them into thinking absentee votes are bad, unless it's a Trump using them).

If figures for a state are given for in-person and early voting, but don't include mailed-but-not-yet-received-and-counted votes, there could be states that make Trump look better than reality. He'll use that, for sure, claiming the other votes shouldn't be counted, and that any state that changes from a narrow Trump lead to a Biden one is "crooked".

And the same goes for exit polls; how prepared will the pollsters and media be to fashion a poll that is truly indicative of in-person and mail voting? Will they have the patience to say "we have to wait for a sample of people who mailed a vote in at the last possible moment", and to balance the voting methods once they've got proper figures on how much each method was used? Again, I fear they won't be able to resist giving in-person exit poll results the moment they can, and that could distort expectations. Which then could encourage Trump to start filing lawsuits.