voting in the u.s has never been easy
but over the years more and more u.s
states have tried to make things easier
by allowing
voting by mail and the share of voters
casting their ballots by post
has risen steadily in recent elections
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so how will voting by mail impact this
election
due to the global pandemic records could
be set
but how easy it is to do so very much
depends on where you live
10 states automatically send ballots to
their residents
35 other states have rules where voters
need to ask for a postal ballot
but these five states only allow voting
by mail
if you have a valid excuse for not being
able to get to the polls in person
and no kovid 19 does not count
voting by mail has largely been
uncontroversial
until this year this is going to be the
scam of all time
there's no no concern for mail-in
ballots democrats have largely requested
more absentee ballots than republicans
in florida alone 800 000 more requests
were filed by democrats
so far so what might this all mean for
the election result itself
first and foremost voting by mail is
more complicated
and many will do it for the first time
you have to absolutely be meticulous
you know when you fill out the ballot
and the information in 2016
318 000 mail ballots were rejected
a number that could exceed 1 million
this year and with so many more
democrats voting by mail
republican lawyers are set to challenge
the validity of mail ballots
in every swing state hopefully the
federal
judges all respect it all highly
respected
hopefully they'll be able to see this
clearly and stop it
currently there are 320 lawsuits in 44
states
over the 2020 election with so many
votes coming in via mail
election night will look somewhat
different this year election night is
nowhere near the official results the
rules vary some states start processing
and counting votes before
election day but in the crucial
battleground states of wisconsin and
pennsylvania
they wait until election day the
challenging part is going to be
dealing with you know counting them as
quickly as we can
getting a final result from these states
could therefore
take a while i could be leading and then
they'll just keep getting ballots and
ballots and ballots and ballots
because now they're saying that the
ballots can come in late well what does
that mean
it means it will take longer than usual
to count all the votes
and election night could turn into
election week
you