What US election day – and the days after – will look like in 2020

Election night in America is likely to look much different this year.

A surge of Americans are casting their ballots by mail, which may mean it will take longer for election officials to count votes. There is little unusual about this – even though news networks typically project a winner based on their analysis on election night, states always continue to count ballots after election day and state deadlines to give official results aren’t until weeks after election day.

But Donald Trump has repeatedly said no votes should be counted...