The White House, the Congress, the prospect of change.

The importance of each and every vote.

Protect and to preserve our voting system.

From the ACLU, this is at the polls, a special mini-series on, you guessed it, voting.

I'm Molly McGrath, a voting rights lawyer and organizer, and your host for this series.

You've right to vote of all of our young people.

It belongs to you.

The machinery of democracy should work for everyone everywhere.

This week, we'll be answering the question,

What will election night look like this November?

Election Night is a quintessential American tradition. election night look like this November.

Election night is a quintessential American tradition.

The votes come in and television networks begin to report the results.

Ultimately, well into the night, the election is called, one candidate concedes to the other,

and we all get to watch it happen live.

But what happens when millions of people decide to mail in their votes due to COVID-19,

and precincts just can't process these votes as quickly?

What does a delay in results mean?

To learn more, I spoke with Professor Rick Hazen.

He's been studying and teaching election law since 1994.

So you could say he's been at this a while.

I would say things changed a lot in 2000 when we had the disputed election.

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