US election 2020: Delay due to postal ballot failure - Trump supporters try to prevent the count

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.

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Update from November 5th, 4:30 p.m.:

In the

, the counts in Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia are continuing.

Riots broke out on Thursday night when supporters of

tried

to prevent

the count at a polling station in

.

In particular,

is currently the focus of attention, the counting of the remaining postal votes should be finished soon.

Although

ahead in the state,

primarily use

postal votes.

And so could tip the scales.

Even

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

expects

good chances - which Trump wants to prevent.

The incumbent

and his team had announced that

they wanted to stop

the ongoing vote counting through the corridor to the

.

STOP THE COUNT!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020

On Twitter,

spoke

of an alleged "disappearance" of Republican votes and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed that the Democrats had sent in fake ballot papers.

Meanwhile,

see

no evidence of irregularities in the

.

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

may have failed

thousands of

slips

across the country before the cut-off times.

At least that's what the

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

on which this information is based may not be entirely complete.

As

reported on Tuesday, the Post wanted to simplify processes and therefore may

not have scanned

and not included them in the statistics, even though the papers were actually delivered.

Update, 11:33 a.m.:

According to the

, election

in the decisive states of

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

according to

.

In the

, all of the county's postal ballot papers were stored in an arena.

According to the CBS, there was a

.

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

and many

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

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

cast

by

vote will in all probability take longer than that in the polling stations.

This is also because, in some

, postal voting documents are also accepted that were only sent on election day.

The date of the postmark applies.

In

for example,

votes

could still be received three days after the

.

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,

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

in particular

tend to vote by post.

They traditionally cast their votes earlier, while

tend to go to the polls on election day.

The

is likely to cement these attitudes.

Critics accuse

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

(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

issued an extraordinary election day order around 12 noon on Tuesday, requiring the

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

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:

is also

affected

by the breakdown

.

As the

, the number of punctually delivered election papers in

is only 74 percent.

In

, the presidential race is particularly competitive.

Because of its size, the southeastern state of the

29 electorates - only

(55) and

(38) send more.

Trump

had recently appointed

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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