There’s additionally more likely to be extra details about how and why the calls are being made. The Related Press, which expects to name about 7,0
There’s additionally more likely to be extra details about how and why the calls are being made. The Related Press, which expects to name about 7,000 races up and down the poll, plans to clarify its calls — or lack of them — in actual time.
The Instances depends on info from The A.P., along with evaluation from its personal election specialists, to name races. We may even be bringing again our well-known “needle” that reveals who’s on observe to win — however just for three key states the place we anticipate to have sufficient details about which votes have been counted. (The needle itself doesn’t make the race calls.)
Wish to know extra? Various shops are providing fairly detailed explainers of their race name operations.
Does the president have any authorized energy himself, by means of the Division of Justice, or by means of the court docket system to curtail state poll counting at midnight, Nov. 3?
— Norm Goldman
President Trump has just lately argued, ignoring the historical past of each election evening, that states ought to cease counting ballots by the top of Nov. 3. However he can not forestall states, which handle their very own elections, from counting ballots past midnight.
No state ever stories last outcomes on election evening, even in years the place there isn’t a pandemic. And to be clear, Mr. Trump can not straight dispute the election ends in court docket, however he may problem voting strategies and election procedures in an effort to vary the postelection counting course of.
Mr. Trump has mentioned that he wished to get Justice Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court docket earlier than the election as a result of he expects the court docket to rule on postelection challenges. That is an especially uncommon incidence — even when some folks nonetheless have reserved trauma from the 2000 election, when the Supreme Court docket stopped Florida’s handbook recount, successfully handing the election to George W. Bush.
However final week, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh breathed new life into the Bush v. Gore ruling, writing that the choice may play a job in deciding potential challenges to election rulings from state courts.
Isabella Grullón Paz and Maggie Astor contributed reporting.