That in no way is a response to what i said... My gosh dude can you not read? or are you just that stupid? the only thing i can remotely link to what your "trying" to respond to is when i said "Lol I'll be back on the day they announce he's won." Which isn't even directly talking about election night, but as far as election night goes. Most major networks do declare a winner on election night! You freaking retard.
Only if they statistically can. Or they are called FOX news.
Issue with Covid epidemic is - you've got record number mail votes that quote 'have to reach the counting places either by election day, or a week out (depends on state legislation). So if its close - and there are still mail votes to be counted, its impossible to announce a winner on election night. (Mail votes take longer to count, because you have more verification steps, and opening envelopes steps, that take time and cant be skipped.)
Fox will probably announce a projected winner, but if its within margin of error for projections (a few percent), or closer than the number of expected vote percentages of mail votes to be gained to still be counted, you dont get a winner declared on election night.
In fact, with Gore it was the supreme court that decided the election by telling them to stop recounting at one point.
So for that scenario Trump wants his proud boys standing by in the streets, and wants to 'decide what to do in the moment' and wants his 6-3 majority in the supreme court, and...
edit: And the followup to some of those scenarios is branches of the army coming in and taking over in case he is declared the looser and doesnt leave the office. You have to add that because he has refused on every occasion to say if he would leave peacefully in case of a loss.
Also on mail in voting ballots, no statistically valid 'fraudulent' scheme has been found yet. Thats just made up. In fact Trump told his own voters to commit voting fraud (vote per mail, and the in person again on voting day to ('check if the system is working'), which it still should - but, that out of the mouth of a sitting president...) All voting fraud stories the ultras are dreaming up is one person deciding which vote to discard/invalidate, by the smell of the envelope, or something, so schemes that dont work. And are highly illegal. While suppressing the mail vote (make sure you slow down the postal system, make sure to install legislation, that vote have to reach the poling places on election day and not a day after (install legislation, that the date on the stamp (when it started to be processed) doesnt matter at all), then challenging the outcome, and hoping the supreme court will decide favorably on stopping recounts is all legal. And much more likely to be successful in manipulating the election.
That they work at all is ensured, by the republican campaigns urging their voters to vote in person, and so 'stacking' the backed of votes they can discard, more than proportionally with democratic votes.
Has to do with statistics. (Its easier to manipulate an election pulling the big leavers, than to count on defrauding measures, where there are checks in place where people look at each others hands at all time.)
edit: Dug up some students paper (California Institute of Tech) on why voting results can change after election day:
https://preprints.apsanet.org/engag...ay-the-blue-shift-in-california-elections.pdf