Election experts envision chaos as Biden and Trump fight over votes in November - Business Insider

Those are some of the worst-case scenarios that legal insiders and veterans of the contested 2000 presidential election are freaking out about less than two months before Election Day. Insider interviewed 15 election law experts and veteran political operatives who were involved in the Florida recount battle about the worst-case scenarios they're predicting for this fall. "It's gonna be Florida times 10," said Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections at the watchdog group Common Cause. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden both have high-powered lawyers working preemptively to secure their side a legal edge heading into November and to stand ready to fight the election's outcome in court if things don't go their way. The Republican site even has a section that attacks Elias personally, warning that he and the Democrats are "watering down important election safeguards and increasing the opportunity for rampant fraud, abuse, and corruption." Both parties' websites highlight their legal strategies in battleground states like Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and Montana. Like Florida's Katherine Harris in 2000, secretaries of state from swing states could play a starring role in post-Election Day ballot disputes. "I see myself almost as like the plumber of the process: My job is to make things work."Voting rights advocates are also trying to keep up legal pressure in other states that might not decide the election, but where they're expecting to see problems with election oversight. Bush in the 2000 Florida litigation, doesn't think an election fight will trigger an armed conflict."I don't think we will face civil insurrection," Richard, now a registered Democrat, told Insider in a recent interview.