Quite possibly, a bitter, unprecedented election dispute awaits Americans.

10/13/20 – Earlier this year, the New York State Board of Elections took six weeks to declare that U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney had narrowly defeated her primary challenger, Suraj Patel.  The reason: because of COVID-19, the U.S. Postal Service was overwhelmed by the staggering, unprecedented number of mail-in ballots and struggled to process them.  The system simply isn’t designed to absorb and count that many absentee ballots in a matter of days, or even two weeks. Patel sued, citing USPS failures, tens of thousands of disqualified mail-in ballots, and rejected standard absentee ballots.

This dispute, incidentally, exclusively involved Democrats. But will what occurred in New York soon transpire, nationwide?

Many Americans seemingly believe that any dispute regarding the outcome of the coming presidential election will be settled by the courts, not unlike the controversial 2000 presidential election. But the Bush-Gore debacle was mild compared with what might materialize if a skirmish centers around the electoral votes of one state (say, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin), or two or three such states, with ballot eligibility deciding victory. For example, on Nov. 3, President Donald Trump might lead in each state he carried in 2016 — worth, collectively, 306 electoral votes, and declare victory.  However, Joe Biden could insist on awaiting the tabulation of all absentee, and mail-in ballots. Trump then could pressure his opponent to concede, by claiming that his election night totals are enough to re-elect him.  Read more at Des Moines Register

Also see:

• Local postal worker off the job after ballot application, other mail tossed in trash
• Mail-in Balloting – Dumped Mail – No Problem Here…Yeah right