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A nest of fire ants with no sense of direction

Since more or less the beginning, the US presidential election is every four years on the first Monday of November. Maybe not this year.  As the old expression goes, "no prizes for guessing." As with many or most events and systems, Covid-19 has played a complicating factor. That is already effecting the whole process, which has taken a different from to the usual political theatre in the United States.  While Donald Trump is aiming for a second term, he has been hinting (not always with subtlety) that mail-in voting is susceptible to fraud. The only memorable occasion on which lack of availability for a mail-in vote resulted in the assassinations of Hyman Roth in The Godfather . As surreal as a real-life recreation of that would be, there is a vague possibility of some kind of fraud. Donald Trump came to severely dislike the term "meddling" because it was part of the phrase "Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election."  Delaying the election it by