“It’s disconcerting for a reason other than Trump apparently embracing the elimination of democracy. It’s disconcerting because it reinforces that Trump’s interest in appearing to be victorious remains a primary concern,” Philip Bump writes for the Washington Post.
 
“In this election year of plague and recession and catastrophized politics, the mechanisms of decision are at meaningful risk of breaking down. Close students of election law and procedure are warning that conditions are ripe for a constitutional crisis that would leave the nation without an authoritative result. We have no fail-safe against that calamity,” Barton Gellman writes for the Atlantic.
 
This CFR Backgrounder examines how countries are holding elections during the pandemic.