Politico Warns Election Day Snafus Could Be Disastrous

Politico reports:

Anxious Democrats are already fretting about nightmare scenarios in which Trump uses emergency powers to cancel the election, calls in the military to “oversee” voting, or even refuses to vacate the White House.

But conversations with more than a dozen campaign strategists, security officials and election administrators make clear that the most likely picture this fall is something less theatrical, and every bit as destabilizing.

November 3, even if it proceeds as scheduled, is likely to bring bureaucratic snafus and foreseeable chaos unfolding on a hundred different fronts at once, in a thousand voting precincts—all of which will leave the U.S. with its most uncertain, disputed result in a lifetime.

Hit the link for a lengthy examination of the many ways things may go wrong. No paywall.

Voting in 2020 hasn’t been going very well. And with perhaps the most consequential election in generations, experts are starting to believe that the general election will be much, much worse https://t.co/UoilRhPHrH

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