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Some nightmare scenarios for the the November elections
Mail-in voting in the Georgia primary elections this year was 2,500% higher than in 2016, as many voters chose to avoid the risk of visiting a polling station amid the coronavirus pandemic. But the June 10 election was a fiasco anyway. Some people who requested a mail-in ballot didn’t get one, so they had to show up in person. Polling sites were understaffed. Some election workers didn’t know how to operate new voting machines, and some of the machines malfunctioned, causing some voters to wait for hours and others to give up and go home.
Election experts fear similar confusion in the Nov. 3 presidential election, due to the combined effects of new voting systems, coronavirus concerns and partisan warfare. “This upsets the tried and true way of doing things,” election analyst Lou Jacobson of Politifact says in the latest episode of the Yahoo Finance Electionomics podcast. “In addition to the hyperpartisanship and the norm-breaking that has been going on for the past couple years, mail balloting is one more variable which makes things challenging.”
Jacobson wrote a recent column for the Cook Political Report summarizing six scenarios political scientists worry could disrupt the 2020 election. Mail-in voting is not problematic in itself. States such as Washington, California, Oregon, Utah and Hawaii rely completely or heavily on mail-in ballots and haven’t had serious problems. The trouble could come in a state newly reliant on mail-in voting, if the race is close and the state’s electoral votes could tip the election one way or the other, as Florida did in 2000.
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