Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.

Responding to Julia Azari’s point that “democracy itself is on the ballot” — would that give Democrats a mandate for major democracy reform if they win the trifecta? After all, they have a pretty significant democracy reform bill teed up already (HR 1), which would significantly defend and expand the right to vote, require independent redistricting and increase the power of small donors.

The first polls are now closed, in parts of Indiana and Kentucky. So we might start getting results from there soon. However, neither state can be projected until the rest of the polls in them close at 7 p.m. Eastern (6 p.m. Central).

There’s still some court drama over the U.S. Postal Service as Election Day draws to a close. As I mentioned earlier on the live blog, a federal judge ordered the USPS to canvass processing facilities in a number of key states, giving them until midafternoon to conduct the checks. But just before 5 p.m., federal government attorneys representing the USPS submitted a filing saying they would not abide by the order because they were unable to accelerate the schedule of the daily review process that already happens. The NAACP, which brought the lawsuit, has asked the judge for an emergency hearing to discuss the schedules. We’ll keep you posted if there are developments.