Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. officials gave an idea of the built-in post-Nov. 3 chaos if Trump does not get big enough victory to squelch it, in an article in the “Metro” section of the Oct. 21 Washington Post. The article quotes a number of election officials from these three areas saying that full vote tallies for this “Metro D.C.” region will not appear for days, and quite possibly weeks after Nov. 3.
For example, Virginia got a court decision allowing it to start processing ballots two full months before Election Day – but the State Election Commission expects final results not to be announced until two weeks after it, Nov. 16. The entire area is largely Democratic-voting, and has been the scene of numerous street demonstrations and confrontations throughout the Trump Presidential term.
This built-in serious delay is announced despite large early-voting turnouts and continuous processing (though not tallying) of the ballots being cast. Those turnouts have everywhere featured voters – including many seniors and elderly people — moving through long lines in very close proximity to one another, sometimes waiting in long lines for voting to start – completely debunking the Democrats’ canard that voters’ fear of COVID meant they had to be able to vote by mail.
