Before the 2020 US election, Donald Trump repeatedly spoke of manipulation through postal voting.
On election day there were serious mishaps first in Florida and now in Georgia.
The 59th US presidential election is eagerly awaited.
Donald Trump (Republican) takes on Joe Biden (Democrat).
Postal voting has never been as important as this year.
This also harbors problems and several breakdowns.
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Update from November 5th, 4:30 p.m.:
In the
USA
, the counts in Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia are continuing.
Riots broke out on Thursday night when supporters of
Donald Trump
tried
to prevent
the count at a polling station in
Arizona
.
In particular,
Georgia
is currently the focus of attention, the counting of the remaining postal votes should be finished soon.
Although
Trump is
ahead in the state,
Democrats
primarily use
postal votes.
And so could tip the scales.
Even
Trump
announced on Twitter to speak out and called for an immediate stop of the count.
In the majority of US states, postal votes are counted at the end.
As a result, the Democratic challenger
Joe Biden
expects
good chances - which Trump wants to prevent.
The incumbent
US President
and his team had announced that
they wanted to stop
the ongoing vote counting through the corridor to the
Supreme Court
.
STOP THE COUNT!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020
On Twitter,
Trump
spoke
of an alleged "disappearance" of Republican votes and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed that the Democrats had sent in fake ballot papers.
Meanwhile,
OSCE observers
see
no evidence of irregularities in the
US election
.
Postal voting in the US: US Post is said to have failed to deliver thousands of ballot papers on time
Update, 6.47 p.m.:
The
US Post
may have failed
to deliver
thousands of
postal voting
slips
across the country before the cut-off times.
At least that's what the
Raw Story
portal reports
citing data published on Wednesday on Twitter, which suggests this conclusion.
In South Florida, for example, 27 percent of all postal ballot papers were never received.
However, the
data
on which this information is based may not be entirely complete.
As
Vice
reported on Tuesday, the Post wanted to simplify processes and therefore may
not have scanned
ballot papers
and not included them in the statistics, even though the papers were actually delivered.
Update, 11:33 a.m.:
According to the
picture
, election
workers
in the decisive states of
Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are
now taking a break.
Until the next morning, their time.
That would be in four to five hours.
For our time (i.e. CET) this would mean: The counting will not continue until this afternoon from around 3 p.m.
At around 9 a.m. (CET) in Pennsylvania, 1.4 million postal votes were still pending, according to CNN - and all votes that are still in the mail are still valid in the state, provided they have a stamp from election day.
Update, 8:13 a.m.:
According to CBS, five people count the votes in Fulton County (see update from 6:19 a.m.).
So that can still take a while.
And these five people could produce one, if not the decisive result for Georgia and thus perhaps for the entire US election.
Postal ballot glitch in Georgia: Delay after burst water pipe - only five people count in Fulton County
Update, 7:25 a.m.:
Georgia is particularly exciting in this context.
The opinions of the analysts differ widely here.
Many votes have not yet been counted.
The Republicans still see Trump as the winner.
The Democrats assume that the postal votes not yet counted are more likely to go to Biden - which could change everything again.
Among other things, the voices that lie in that burst water pipe arena.
Another postal ballot failure: burst water pipe in arena full of ballot papers - counting stopped
Update from 6:19 a.m
.: New bad news from the slow counting in the USA.
Another postal ballot-related glitch occurred, this time in
Atlanta, Georgia,
according to
CBS News
.
In the
county of Fulton County
, all of the county's postal ballot papers were stored in an arena.
According to the CBS, there was a
burst water pipe there
.
The burst pipe is now under control.
But initially it will not be counted any further.
In addition to the burst water pipe, there should also be a shortage of personnel.
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US election: Pennsylvania gives up.
You won't be able to count the votes quickly.
© Matt Slocum / AP / dpa
How many postal voting documents are stored there and whether they are damaged is currently unclear.
It is clear that the district has
800,000 registered voters
and many
voted
there by postal vote.
Lots of black people live there, and Biden apparently hopes to use it to shoot Georgia.
The current trend is more towards Trump.
If the count goes on, Biden Georgia might win.
When the count will continue in Fulton County, however, is completely open.
2020 US election: 300,000 postal ballot papers fail - Trump suspects fraud
Original article, November 4, 1:45 a.m
.: Florida - Never before have
more postal ballot papers been requested
for a
US election
than this year.
A good 66 million votes are likely to come about in this way.
The election documents sent by post could become a decisive factor in the outcome of the election.
Problems are inevitable.
US election 2020: enormous importance of postal votes - Trump suspects fraud
The counting of the
votes
cast
by
postal
vote will in all probability take longer than that in the polling stations.
This is also because, in some
states
, postal voting documents are also accepted that were only sent on election day.
The date of the postmark applies.
In
Pennsylvania,
for example,
votes
could still be received three days after the
US election
.
Basically, that's not a problem either.
Because according to the US electoral law, the states have until December 8th to submit their results.
Nonetheless,
Donald Trump
recently repeatedly
stressed
the risk of electoral fraud through postal voting without any evidence.
He can only lose the election if it is manipulated.
He also advocated that the result on election evening would be decisive.
It has always been like that.
US election 2020: Democrats in particular tend to vote by letter
It can be assumed that
democratic voters
in particular
tend to vote by post.
They traditionally cast their votes earlier, while
Republican supporters
tend to go to the polls on election day.
The
corona pandemic
is likely to cement these attitudes.
Critics accuse
Trump of
deliberately undermining the credibility of the postal vote in order to be able to question the outcome of the election in the event of a defeat.
Conspiracies on the part of Donald Trump are basically lacking any foundation.
On election day there was still excitement about the postal vote.
2020 US election: glitch in absentee ballot - 300,000 ballots affected
The
United States Postal Service
(USPS) failed to meet certain deadlines for delivering the documents.
About 300,000 ballot papers could not be scanned in time.
The scan performed by the USPS confirms that the documents have been delivered.
A federal judge in
Washington
issued an extraordinary election day order around 12 noon on Tuesday, requiring the
USPS
to examine undelivered ballots in a dozen postal districts.
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan instructed the Postal Service "to ensure that no ballot papers have been held up and that any identified ballot papers are immediately sent for delivery".
He ordered a search of the postal facilities and requested a statement from the
USPS
by 4:30 p.m. local time
.
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Biden or Trump: More than 250 million US citizens eligible to vote are allowed to make their crosses.
Many do this by postal vote.
© Jim West / zumawire / dpa
US election 2020: delays in postal voting - in Florida of all places
Spicy:
Swing State
Florida
is also
affected
by the breakdown
.
As the
USPS announced
, the number of punctually delivered election papers in
Florida
is only 74 percent.
In
Florida
, the presidential race is particularly competitive.
Because of its size, the southeastern state of the
USA represents
29 electorates - only
California
(55) and
Texas
(38) send more.
Trump
had recently appointed
Louis DeJoy
as top Post chief, which caused a great stir in the country.
The opposition Democrats accuse Trump and de DeJoy of deliberately weakening the Post in order to torpedo postal votes in the presidential election in November.
Recently there have been reports of delays in delivery, reduced opening times of post offices, dismantled letter boxes and disposed of sorting machines.
But here too there is no reliable evidence.
What is certain is that the mud battle in the race for the White House has once again reached an additional level due to the countless postal votes.
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