Mail-In Election Risks Dragging Out a Trump-Biden Count for Days

  • Ballot-counting delays could lead to lawsuits, cheating claims
  • Blacks, Hispanics, young voters have more ballots rejected

A City of San Francisco Department of Elections employee sorts through ballots at a polling station in City Hall in San Francisco on March 3, 2020.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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The pandemic-inspired moves toward the first mostly mail-in election in November may solve the public health issue, but the change will likely trigger problems that will reverberate long after Election Day.