Pennsylvania is the battleground state with the most Electoral College votes. While everyone will want to know the outcome of the vote there as soon as possible, it’s going to take time.
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With Democratic voters already packed into a small number of districts, reducing voter turnout won’t really lower the chances of Democrats winning – or help Republicans win.
Two legal scholars explain what’s causing the USPS mail delays, what they mean for the election and the agency’s deeper financial problems.
This year is seeing a high number of absentee and mail-in ballots and voting in the period before Election Day – but early voting periods are not new to the 2020 election.
They shouted, they interrupted, they insulted – and not entirely in equal measure. But Biden and Trump also touched on the issues occasionally. Our panel of experts analyzed three key exchanges.
To carry out an election by mail, hundreds of thousands of state and local offices and employees across the US must make sure that ballots are processed in a fair, consistent and timely manner.
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