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Old 07-11-2020, 12:05   #1028
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Re: U.S Election 2020

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
The counters better not be taking the weekend off.
The problem in some states right now seems to be that their rules permit postal votes that are postmarked on or before 3rd November to be counted as long as they arrive within a certain period, that varies from state to state but could be as much as a week later. So right now they are actually waiting to see how many such votes arrive in the post over the next couple of days. This wouldn’t have been a problem in some years when the result was very clear but the race is so tight in so many places that it’s not possible to call them.

If you want to blame anyone for this, you could blame the US Postal Service, or possibly you could blame whoever has failed to resource the USPS to cope with the entirely predictable demand for its services at a time of pandemic. Now I wonder who it was who refused to sign off on that.
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