Whoever wins this election will be illegitimate to much of the country. Already the courts are involved, making this Bush v. Gore II. There are enough irregularities that will only serve to confirm to Trump voters that he was right when he claimed it was a rigged election. Changing election rules on the fly was doomed to create problems and the piles of mail-in ballots have slowed the counting. It's Florida 2000 all over again but in multiple states. This kind of disaster is how you ruin faith in elections.
Our voting system needs to be overhauled. It has needed it for years. One would think that after Florida 2000, something would have been done. Nope. 20 years later and it has gotten worse. Nevada can count billions of dollars in an instant but can't figure out millions of votes. Of course, voting is a state issue. Personally, I'd like to go back to a system where we have election day rather than election season. No early voting, no mail-in ballots.
This is par for the course in 2020. What a year.
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