Warning!!
Don't know if this has been discussed already but here goes. Here is a Presidential election scenario that we need to make sure everybody is aware of before November 3rd so that Fat Donnie and his minions can't manipulate public opinion and try to steal the election if he loses. The scenario is based on the possibility that Democratic voters will used mail in voting the most followed by independent voters and then Republican voters the least. This will mean on election day it may be reversed with more Republicans voting in person than Democrats. So the scenario, on election day the media does their usual coverage of trying to determine the winner that night. Since in person voting gets counted first and faster the media reports the Fat Donnie has a good sized lead and he and the Republicans start claiming that he has done it again and has 'won' a second term. In the following days the mail in votes are counted and since they skew to the Democrats Donnie's lead evaporates and Joe Biden ends up winning (In my opinion hopefully by a comfortable margin). Now due to the fact that Fat Donnie has planted the idea that mail in voting is rife with fraud his base gets up in arms, maybe literally, with his prodding to say the election was 'stolen' and that the numbers on election day should be the only ones that count. Who knows what his base would do in this scenario but it could get violent. So those that believe in our democratic system must make it very clear before election day that we should not expect to know the winner right away. Make it clear why that is as explained above and preemptively let people know that a change in the lead as votes are counted is not uncommon and that with Covid and the change in how people vote it is a very possible scenario. We can't let the process be put in doubt for crass political purposes.
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