Some battleground states are going to give Trump too much fodder to attack election results
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Donald Trump’s campaign to undermine faith in an election he expects to lose means that the states—especially the battleground states—need to make sure voting and vote-counting go smoothly. There’s good news and bad news on that front. In PeSome battleground states are going to give Trump too much fodder to attack election results
Donald Trump’s campaign to undermine faith in an election he expects to lose means that the states—especially the battleground states—need to make sure voting and vote-counting go smoothly. There’s good news and bad news on that front. In Pennsylvania, there’s a lot of bad news. The New York Times is tracking the challenges facing elections officials and voters in seven key states, and ranks Pennsylvania dead last, after even Georgia. Republicans have gone to court over every move the state has made to try to make it easier and safer to vote in the pandemic, successfully delaying those efforts. The state doesn’t have in-person early voting and mail ballots can’t be counted until Election Day—legislation to change the latter is hung up in the Republican-controlled state legislature. Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar has allowed counties to add a satellite elections office where people can vote absentee in person in addition to the existing county elections offices where in-person absentee voting is allowed, but only seven counties have done so. This all adds up to few in-person votes ahead of time, a lot of mail-in votes—683,000 returned so far, out of 2.7 million ballots requested—that have to be counted on Election Day, and Republicans committed to continuing chaos. This election will have historic voter turnout, and it's absolutely imperative that every eligible voter can safely show up at the polls and vote. Sign up to be an Election Protection Volunteer to fight voter suppression this year so that everyone can vote. Read more