Analyzing the Impact of Succession's Fourth Season on Viewership and Character Development.

The latest episode of HBO's "Succession" depicts a fictional scenario where 100,000 ballots in Milwaukee go up in flames, throwing an unexpectedly close presidential election into chaos. While the show got some details wrong, such as the idea that election officials wouldn't know which ballots were destroyed, it raises the question of what would happen if something like this actually occurred. Experts say it would almost certainly end up in litigation, but a judge could grant some kind of accommodation, such as allowing voters to recast their ballots. Election officials do have real emergency plans in place to deal with the unforeseen.