I feel the need to write things down, because I feel that with each passing day it’s hard to reconstruct how rapidly the expectations have changed from the day before. Right now, I feel that the polls predict a sanguine lead for Biden over Trump. Still, I anxiously refresh electoralvote.com and FiveThirtyEight.com daily, trending to several times daily. This is familiar territory from past elections, which were maddeningly close, but they still provided some comfort. Well, in 2016, as everyone will remember, the comfort got stood on its head. So the fear is that the same will happen this time. But why do I feel that it’s within the realm of the possible that Trump will win DESPITE these resoundingly bad poll numbers? Which brings me back to wondering why we all seem to tolerate a non-verifiable vote by machine. Is it just too horrible for us to countenance the diabolical possibility that none of this polling, none of peoples’ actual votes, will matter? Will the votes in the key states be ever so close, but somehow for Trump? The fact that we cannot have paper ballot verified voting in most states seems damning. Why would anyone but someone in on a fix object to proper verification? There is no good answer to that question that I have heard.