Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three Martinis coming up.

Very glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.

And that's the end of the good news.

We're here today, but we've got all bad news, all bad Martinis.

And we'll start off with a prediction that we're not going to know what we need to know

on election night.

And Jim, this is becoming a very tedious policy that we're seeing in a lot of different

places.

And the reason for that is because so many places are expecting mail-in ballots.

So political out with the maddening headline yesterday, why we may not know who won the

Senate on election day.

And look, there's a lot of really close races.

And it's possible that some of them could be really, really, really close that you need

recounts inside usually half of 1% triggers an automatic recount in a lot of states.

Sometimes it could be even closer than that.

Sometimes people might not concede, even though it's a little bit more than that.

The problem is that all these states that won't touch mail-in ballots until election day.

And so what they say is that the root of many of the delays in 2020 is that laws that don't

permit pre-processing mail ballots.

Pre-processing allows election officials to prepare the ballots for tabulation ahead of

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