This is going to be the messiest presidential election of our lifetimes due to the coronavirus pandemic. ☑

• Virtually no state is prepared for the flood of absentee voter applications that are going to be coming in or the flood going out
• Many people who request ballots will end up not getting them due to lost mail or overwhelmed boards of election
• There is going to be too many absentee ballots out to have any serious idea about who has won the majority of votes in on election night
• Most states don’t count or even start verifying the outside of absentee ballots envelopes until days or even a week or more after Election Day
• People expect the president to be determined by the end of election night but we aren’t likely to know final results until around Thanksgiving or possibly even early December
• Expect a lot of absentee ballots to be tossed out on technicalities – some more valid than others – depends on the state
• Absentee ballots have numerous chances for mistakes and ballots being laid aside and state election law is very complicated
• Activists on both sides of the aisle will argue election laws are unjust or court rulings are unfair of things don’t go their way
• Polling data may not be accurate with so many people voting by absentee so don’t be surprised if election results vary from the polls
• The final results will be messy and maybe not what you hoped for.
• But elections are ultimately just temporary, new elections are only two to four years away.