US heading for post-election strife

WASHINGTON: There are increasingly ominous signs that the us is heading towards post-election strife with massive distrust over voting procedures and counting of ballots. Unless there’s a landslide in favour of 1 of the candidates – and maybe albeit there’s one – it’s unlikely the country will see finale on November 3.
President Donald Trump himself has laid the bottom for questioning any adverse result by repeatedly highlighting stray errors, mistakes, or malfeasance within the distribution of ballots, albeit most experts agree they’re not on a scale that ought to make a difference to the ultimate outcome.
On Monday, Trump retweeted a story a few New Jersey postal employee accused of dumping 1,800 pieces of mail, including 99 ballots for the upcoming election, with a one-word comment: “Rigged!”
With polls all across the country, including in battleground states, showing Biden opening up big leads and drawing level even in toss-up states that Trump won in 2016, the President appears to possess selected a slash-and-burn strategy which will involve torching any result that doesn’t favour him.

At an equivalent time, political operatives on the bottom on each side are preparing for legal challenges amid sporadic reports of ballot harvesting and malfeasance. In California, the local media is reporting that Republicans are installing unauthorized ballot-drop off boxes marked “official” inviting charges of illegal and personal vote gathering.