Good morning. 
Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of eighty-six. Sunrise is 5:55 AM and sunset 8:05 PM, for 14h 10m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 78.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand three hundred sixty-ninth day.
On this day in 1974, Pres.Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the presidency effective noon the next day.
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Laurence Tribe, Jennifer Taub, and Joshua Geltzer write Trump Has Launched a Three-Pronged Attack on the Election:
We can see glimmers of Trump’s approach in what he said about Florida’s tight 2018 gubernatorial and Senate races, and he’ll say it again to delegitimize the counting of mail-in ballots that might cost him reelection. We’ve received a frightening preview in the Census Bureau’s recent announcementthat it plans to cut off population-counting efforts one month early, well before needed to meet the December 31 deadline for delivering census results to Congress.. This decision was made after the Trump administration itself had asked for more time, not less. It’s the same play: When Trump doesn’t like the numbers coming in, he stops counting.
Halting vote-counting after Election Day requires Trump to stage a three-pronged attack: slowing mail delivery, then urging Republican state legislatures to deem Election Day “failed” because of the many uncounted votes, and finally denouncing as illegitimate all vote-counting that continues after Election Day—even as slowly delivered mail-in ballots keep arriving. Leading the first step is Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who’s reportedly shutting down post offices and slowing mail delivery under the guise of cost-cutting. Employees say that piles upon piles of letters and packages remain undelivered, stranded for weeks on end. These efforts undermine public confidence in the Postal Service and threaten to slow the distribution of blank ballots to voters and the return of completed ballots to state officials—with a likely disproportionate effect on Democratic-leaning urban voters, for whom the coronavirus’s circulation in cities makes mail-in voting particularly appealing. The likely surge in mail-in ballots that the pandemic will encourage suggests that tallying the election results won’t be completed on November 3 but will take days, possibly weeks, to complete accurately.
Missy Ryan and Paul Sonne report As Trump demurs, an unimaginable question forms: Could the president reach for the military in a disputed election?:
As the election approaches, the president has once again declined to say he would accept its results. “I have to see,” he said during a Fox News interview this month [in July]. “I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no. And I didn’t last time either.”
The president has warned for months that mail-in voting — expected to be used more widely than ever due to the coronavirus pandemic — or potential foreign interference in Democrats’ favor could yield widespread fraud and a “rigged” election, comments his critics worry are laying the groundwork in case he decides to dispute the result. The remarks take on new meaning as former vice president Joe Biden, his presumptive Democratic challenger, assumes a commanding lead in polls.
Scholars cautioned that they are not suggesting that the military would proactively seek to influence the vote, but rather that Pentagon leaders could be forced in a disputed election to become involved in a way that would appear partisan, similar to what occurred in the nation’s capital in the wake of protests in June.
Philip Bump examines Trump’s dishonest rhetoric about mail-in voting:
A Melting glacier — Ice chunk shows signs of breaking away in Italy: