WASHINGTON _ Long lines. Electronic tablets failing. Last-minute legal haggling. Delayed results because of a surge in absentee balloting. And a president casting doubt over the whole "rigged" process.
As Joe Biden expands his national and state polling lead over Donald Trump, Democrats can't shake this nightmare November scenario: That even a Biden advantage heading into Election Day could be nullified by chaos at the polls, layered by added confusion around the fast-changing voting laws that officials are adjusting for an ongoing pandemic.
"The thing that I am probably most concerned about," Biden campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon acknowledged to former Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe on his podcast recently, "is voting in this country." It's risen to such a priority that she indicated the campaign is debating running ads explicitly on voter education.
