“What we want election night to look like is a system that’s fair, a situation where we know who the president of the United States is on election night,” she said. This past week, Barr told the president about discarded mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, which the president claimed was evidence of fraud. But that was in years when nearly everyone voted in person on Election Day. The processing of those mail-in ballots will take longer than ballots cast on Election Day. Some states require that mail-in ballots arrive by Election Day, others that they simply be postmarked by Election Day.

Source: Washington Post September 26, 2020 14:59 UTC