By Svetlana Ekimenko /Sputnik News/ – As President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden delivered closing pitches to voters, the latest tallies show that over 98 million Americans have already cast their votes in the 2020 presidential election, with mail-in and early in-person voting prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, with a record-breaking turnout at the polls expected.
The 2020 US presidential election, where Americans will choose between Republican President Donald Trump and his Democrat rival Joe Biden, has already broken records in terms of the number of people who have opted to vote ahead of Election Day – 3 November.
Over 98 million people have chosen mail-in and early in-person voting amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to cast their ballot, with America heading for its highest turnout in a century.
Experts suggest that election night may be fraught with irregularities stemming from a number of factors, including delays in results coming in due to ballot counting being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
While a decisive triumph in key states may propel a candidate to victory by the end of the night, it is equally possible that the winner of the election might not be evident by midnight on Tuesday, according to a plethora of US elections officials and media organisations.
This scenario has played out before, with the vote count lasting past midnight in the 2000, 2004 and 2016 US presidential elections.
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