Source: Washington Post
by Batt Bai
“As we found out in 2000, when the fate of the free world came to hang (literally) on a bunch of half-punched holes in Florida, the ballot count itself is hard to know within a minuscule percentage of the vote. In a vast country where more than 150 million people will cast votes, there are always small irregularities and uncertainties — things that normally get washed away in the larger tide of results, except when a few hundred votes might change the outcome. Despite what Trump has been saying for four years, this wasn’t an issue in 2020, when Joe Biden won by a decisive margin …. But things look different this year. It seems possible, even likely, that the final result will be slow in coming and impossibly close, satisfying one side and igniting the other. What then? Can the country bend without breaking?” (10/23/24)