Election Commission says “substantial chance” results will take time
According to Federal Electoral Commissioner Ellen Weintraub (FEC) on Monday, there is a “substantial chance” that results for the November presidential election may not be known on election night, as voters turn to post-polls in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Let me just tell everyone, we will have to take every deep breath this year and have patience this year, because there is a substantial chance that we will not know on election night what the results are,” Ms Weintraub said on CNN’s “New Day.”
‘Probably for the presidency, but maybe for many other races that are important to people, and that’s OK. If it takes a little longer to count all the votes correctly, then that’s what we need to do to make sure everyone counts their votes, ”she continued.
Ms Weintraub said you could “absolutely” have a “fair election with post-ballots”, and told the show’s host that “the military has been doing it since the Civil War, there are many states that are robust mail-in voice systems are already in place. “
She added that in 2016, about 25 percent of the votes came from e-mail votes, and in an apparent whip at Donald Trump, “voting experts did not really distinguish between absent votes, which the president and the vice- president have signed, and mail-in votes “.
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