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

Also speaking of democracy being on the ballot this year: In several states, it literally is! Massachusetts and Alaska are deciding whether they want to use ranked-choice voting. Florida and Alaska are deciding whether they want to have open nonpartisan primaries. California is deciding on voting rights for felons on parole. Virginia is voting on independent redistricting. The Fulcrum has a helpful guide to these and more democracy issues on the ballot this year.

If he wins tonight, Biden’s plan for COVID-19 include a nationwide test and trace system, which many experts have said the U.S. should have had up and running months ago. The problem: It may now be too late for such a system to offer meaningful benefits. Test and trace — interviewing people who have tested positive for COVID-19 and tracking down their recent contacts so those people can also be tested or quarantined — works best when there are clear points of contact and people can make educated guesses about where they might have contracted the illness. Thanks to the recent surge, there are many parts of the country where this is no longer possible. Running for president this year was always going to be about how each candidate will deal with the pandemic — but at this point, it’s going to affect what options any potential Biden administration has available to get the disease under control. If he wins tonight, he has some big challenges ahead.

One county in Georgia is keeping polls open for an extra two hours after having technical problems this morning: