AlleyPack said:
DrummerboyWolf said:
AlleyPack said:
A question regarding election night:
Will some states be able to be "called" even considering that some mail-in votes haven't been counted yet?
Meaning... will it be known heading into election night that, for example, N.C. has 500k mail-in votes to be counted?
So if one of the candidates is leading in N.C. by more than 500k votes once the in-person polls close, can the state be called?
So the first question would be: do mail-in ballots have to be officially requested? Which could make the official number of still-to-be-counted votes known.
And if so, will those numbers be known on election night?
(hopefully that all makes sense)
The Supreme Court has already ruled on several states for ballots. They ruled on Wisconsin yesterday. Votes have to be in by a certain time on election day and not several days after. They tied on PA last week and that went back to the Circuit Court. John Roberts for some reason voted differently than he did yesterday. That one might come back. NC will be filing and I imagine with ACB there, Cooper and the NC Board of Elections 9 day grace period will not survive. The legislature decides election laws and not the Governor.
Most states ratify their election results through the Secretary of State and after election day they have a certain time frame to get their final results in. It's a process like that and may be different in each state.
Thanks.
Has there been an honest (non-partisan) opinion/assessment of when we'll REALLY know who won the election?
Meaning... is there a chance that it will actually be known on the night of 11/3... or is there zero chance of that, and it won't be until 11/4, or 11/5, or much later, etc.?
Has any official, non-partisan statement on this topic been made by anyone? (I honestly don't know, b/c I haven't been following any of the main media entities.)
It could be anything from election night to several weeks after. It all depends on the margins in the battleground states.
Most states that are safe Red/Blue will be called on election night. Regardless of mail in voting, margins will be high enough that the states can be called.
Battleground states could be called called on election night, or could take a couple days. If we see razor thin margins, there may be a delay. Personally I think we will have 45+ states called by election night, with 0-5 outstanding. In this scenario, you could have several states outstanding, but still have enough ready to declare a winner.
Now if there are controversies on some states with small margins, and the overall EC count is close, you could see court cases that drag on for a couple weeks. This is the worst scenario for everyone. I expect the losing party, whoever it is, to cry foul on the election results.