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.
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?
Probably trying to generate enough vote to get a second Democrat on the ticket instead of the Republican.