[madhadron]

This is an incredibly poor analysis.

If you allow mail in votes that are accepted as long as they are postmarked by election day, you can't certify the counts on election day unless a majority of registered voters' ballots have arrived by election day. It's as simple as that.

The contention is mostly in a small number of states where the Republican party has engineered electoral corruption in order to retain control, combined with the winner-take-all nature of electoral votes in most states. Most states conduct elections with few problems and little drama.

If the president were elected by popular vote at the national level there would be far less contention because the margin in any given local election would be much less meaningful.