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US presidential election: why the name of the winner will probably not be known on November 3

2020-09-22T11:35:05.850Z


The coronavirus epidemic and with it, the announced explosion of postal voting, threatens to disrupt the good electoral process and delay the announcement of the results which will decide between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.


For several weeks, a little music, that the Americans had not heard since the year 2000 and the Bush-Gore duel, has been heard: it is very likely that the name of the next president cannot be known on the evening of election of November 3.

The United States could thus have to wait days, even weeks, to be fixed, and with them the whole world.

The ballot promised to be tumultuous, even before the Covid-19 pandemic, given the extreme polarization and the tensions that cross the American political scene and society.

Not to mention the possible technical problems, such as the fiasco that occurred in the Democratic caucuses of Iowa in February: it was then necessary to wait several days before knowing the results of a poll in which less than 200,000 people had participated ... From there to imagine the consequences that such a delay would have on the scale of the vast country ...

A physical vote difficult to anticipate

But even more than these worries, the real element

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Source: lefigaro

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