Politico: Results not expected for days in tight primaries next week

Some of the most consequential primaries of the 2020 election are on deck next week.

But don’t wait up Tuesday night expecting all the results.

Voting in Kentucky and New York, where progressives are trying to score big victories, will be chaotic. Many voters will likely vote by mail, but in-person voting could be plagued by shuttered polling places, long lines and other impediments created as a result of social distancing guidelines.

It all means that final results will be delayed for days — if not weeks — as both states grapple with how to hold an election in pandemic. Some of Kentucky’s largest counties — which will only have one voting center open on Tuesday — are going to the extreme step of locking down their totals of in-person votes for a week, until they can tally the mail ballots as well. …

Absentee ballots in the Empire State won’t even start to be counted until a week after the election. In New York, ballots postmarked by Election Day that are received by June 30 are still valid. The state doesn’t start counting until all absentee ballots are in: It’s a security measure to make sure nobody voted in-person and also submitted an absentee ballot, Common Cause New York Executive Director Susan Lerner said.

“People need to change their expectations and adjust to the realities of our current elections,” Lerner said. “If that means taking a little extra time, better to be efficient and accurate than to be fast and raise questions.”