I don’t care what ABC says at 11pm On 11/3

Why is this such a worry?

It doesn’t worry me in the least

Trump was always going to say he won no matter what the vote tallies are

Who cares what he claims?

A week is a long time and a lot of opportunity to create more chaos.

But we seem to be in short supply of those in Dump's Murica.

helps the Democratic numbers immediately.

I have to mail-in. But I'm in a blue state ...

That's okay. That's why military escorts exist.

If so, when on election would they be counted?

In PA, absentee ballots can't be opened and counted until the polls close at 8PM. Gov Wolf is asking our R controlled state legislature to amend our election law to allow the absentee ballots to be "canvassed" before the election, that is the county election officials can verify voters and signatures on the outer envelop and sort the sealed ballot envelopes. He's also asking that ballots post-marked, but not received, by election day be counted. We had a test run in our primary back in June where there were a lot of absentee ballots and it went pretty smoothly. We even had a race where it looked like a win for a Pgh Dem, but after the mailed ballots were counted, a Phila Dem won. But that was only a day later.

O'Donnell. iirc, last night said MA opens and counts ballots as soon as they are received. That's why the Markey and Neal wins were called pretty quickly.

Anyway, how long did we wait in 2000 until FL was ultimately awarded to Bush by the Supreme Court?

I wonder if we should encourage Democrats who can vote in person to do so. While I like the idea of voting by mail, I don't like it with this administration.

I'm not willing to depend on John Roberts as the swing vote for a contested election.

Where I am, it's no problem to go to the poll. In June, my county had all the polls open and fully staffed.

The biggest issue will be in the big and biggest urban areas, Pgh and Phila. Pgh could open PPG Arena (Lower Hill District), the Peterson Events Center (Oakland, UPitt), Palumbo Center (Duquesne U) and perhaps the gyms at Point Park U and Chatham U as consolidated polling places. I think the largest absentee ballots will be from Phila though. Then again, they also have a lot of large facilities like the Wells Fargo Center, Liacourus Center (Temple), Palestra (Penn), LaSalle, Drexel, Phila U (Textile) - all accessible via SEPTA bus or El. Lurie has already offered Lincoln Financial Field as a consolidated poll although I don't know where the polls would be as the field is open air, maybe in the concourses.

I'm getting flyers and robocalls.

The Rs have always encouraged this as a good way to vote.