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What Are the Odds of a Disputed Election? Pretty High
The Electoral College makes it more likely that we’ll see the vote hinge on ballot-counting rules.
Voting the old fashioned way.
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As Election Day nears, the possibility of a disputed presidential election is worrying a lot of people. You’ve heard the scenarios: An embittered Donald Trump loses but refuses to leave the Oval Office. An embittered Joe Biden loses but refuses to concede. Absentee ballots that arrive after November 3 aren’t counted. Or they are counted. The angry left takes to the streets. The angry right takes to the streets. Lawyers take to the courts.
Whatever goes wrong — and chances are something will — we will likely be having an argument over the vote count.