What will happen if thousands of people can't vote

[jeff47]

54. FEMA has already said they'll pay.

I don't think they can get those paper ballots distributed to all those places in a few days

We can get drones distributed to Afghanistan in under a day.

We can handle distribution of paper ballots in our own country in about a week.

Then you need the machines to read them electronically...which need power.

No, you don't.

First, if you're reprinting the absentee ballot, you'll be counting those using the Mark 1 human eyeball.

Second, if you're using an optical scan system, you've already printed and distributed the ballots. Making your first concern moot.

Third, you don't have to scan them at the polling place. Put them in a box, transfer it to the Board of Elections and scan them there. There's already a procedure for this - it's what happens anyway when the polls close!

Or you need a LOT of people ready to read and count.

Because it's January, and the President and new Congress will be sworn in a week after the election.

Oh wait, we're talking about early November.

This is a trivial problem to solve.