Because the Rs wanted to cheat like they always do.

The real question is why so many continue to support these miscreants.

That is, we are arriving at peak information overload/noise precisely at a time when everyone is doing two jobs to pay tge bills and thus no time to sort through the clutter.

SOLUTIONS:

—Teach media literacy.
—Complement traditional art instruction with media arts.
—Dems and progressives must launch media enterprises that radically change the way information is presented, repeated, and fact-checked.
—Grassroots, person-to-person information systems and live media-sharing rituals need to be tested and implemented. Humanitarian houses of worship need to launch the same. Community-based information sharing and reality checking is unparalled and is the antidote to the web’s biased free-for-all.

They just did.

is that in country ballots must _arrive_ by election day. This is why in the article they are called "late ballots".

Oh, the horror!