Posted on 03/12/2024 10:20:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
"Count all the votes!" as the lefties liked to say loudly.
That was their justification for mass mail-in ballots in California, ballot-harvesting by illegals, and extended voting for weeks and weeks. Election Day? No, election month. They said it was to expand the franchise to "marginalized communities" and raise turnout.
Curiously, turnout has now hit a near-record low in a presidential primary year as this Secretary of State supplied data makes clear. Before these new "innovations" were enacted, mostly in the era of COVID, it was not unusual to have turnout in such years in the 70% range. Today, they got ... 34%, just slightly above 2022's 33.2%, which wasn't a presidential primary election year.
Now we're onto the extended counting.
Count all the votes!
Except that they're not counting all the votes, they've got better things to do with their time than count ballots.
According to CalMatters:
The latest official tally from the Secretary of State’s office shows that more than 5.8 million ballots have been counted from California’s primary, with 1.7 million still to go.
Based on today’s updated umbers, the total of 7.5 million votes means a turnout of about 34%, well below the norm for presidential primaries, but not the record low that some analysts projected based on early numbers.
It also means that it’s going to be a while before some results are finalized, likely amplifying complaints that it takes too long to count votes in California. While voting by mail has been happening for a month, as long as ballots were postmarked by last Tuesday and they arrive at elections offices by this Tuesday, they will be counted. As expected, the votes being counted after primary day are trending more Democratic and younger.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Trying to establish low expectations so counting can take weeks in the general election?
If this bothers you, just wait until they count the votes in Washington State, where the envelope is check marked as to whether its D or R......
Just keep counting those vote until the democRats win. That’s a fair election in ‘Rat land.
Hey, give the Democrats a break. They have to have time to find all the mail in ballets they misplaced.
In California you just get one envelope, no security envelope, so they know everything about the person whose vote they can view.
The extra ballots are always in someone’s vehicle trunk.
California lost it’s pre made out 2020 ballots somebody’s getting fired.
Unfortunately AZ adopted (I have no idea why!) many of the CA voting rules. So it takes a long to count votes in AZ too!
Why takes so long? - because most votes are mail in or dropped in, and they could be mailed up to the election. So there are many votes (in envelopes) received on the election day or later.
They have to be checked and voted by somebody.
There are just few people doing that - so how much does it takes to check the legitimacy of the envelope, open it and push thru the ballot into the machine? Very long!
Believe me, it is a lot harder to process mail in votes than in person ones, but it is supposed to make voting easy for voters and to increase voter turnout.
The above is the reason for long counting, even if you assume all is Kosher.
Obviously, the process is riddled with all kind of possibilities of fraud, I do not even want to go there!
In most states, people vote in person, on election day, which means their identity and eligibility is verified, their ballots are processed and counted on election day. So by the morning, almost everything is counted!
But not in CA or AZ! By the Morning after the election, maybe half of the vote is still sitting somewhere in storage, in unopened envelopes, waiting to be processed.
From what I’ve read, in CA mail-in ballots have the signatures validated against the voter registration record. This seems to be done manually, one ballot at a time, by the election workers. Since CA is basically a vote-by-mail state, it’s a drawn out process.
Many folks want ballots hand-counted, but also want results posted in a few hours. How you gonna do that in states with millions of voters, with dozens of candidates on a ballot, and with all the other issues on a ballot to vote on?
In part because counting depends on math. Math is now avoided by Dims because it's racist.
0: Voter ID (no onerous fraud prone signature verification)
1. No Mail-in Ballots (and no processing centers, not signatures to validate)
2. Small precincts of roughly 2000 voters or less
3. Paper ballots with possibly a local counting machine (not a ballot image scanner) Each precinct tabulates its <2000 ballots and can audit the results with a hand count if needed. Takes no more than a few hours.
results only are transmitted to County or SOS. Precinct results become auditable and verifiable immediately as are County-level results.
One real downside is the will of people to volunteer to man such precincts on election day. Perhaps incentives, like making election day a work holiday, or spending the money now spend on rather expensive machines on providing a small stipend to volunteers would help.
Probably trying to generate enough vote to get a second Democrat on the ticket instead of the Republican.
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