As I understand it, mailed ballots will be counted last in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. That means we won’t know for sure who won the election when we go to bed on November 3, and a Trump tantrum about voter fraud on November 4 is just short of inevitable.
But the results from Florida may well be known by the end of election night. If Biden wins Florida, it will be clear to everyone that the rout is on. The steam will be taken out of Trump’s more violent supporters. There will be fewer Brooks Brothers riots and less violence, and the judicial system will take his complaints about fraud less seriously.
In short, Florida’s system embarrassed the country in 2000. Let’s redeem ourselves and save America as we know it this time.