I don’t know if this is true or not. My son said that he heard or read that the military vote was not counted. That a huge majority of their votes, from key swing states were delivered to the wrong locations and arrived the day after the election. That the number of ballots would have possibly swung the vote to Romney’s side. Anyone else heard this?
I also read that there were huge problems getting military ballots delivered- including a mail plane crash in Iraq or somewhere.
The laws in each state are different- I believe in some northern states, absentee ballots are not counted unless they could change the outcome of a race.
Florida is under a Federal Consent Decree to accept and count military ballots received for a period of time (I think it’s a week) after election day, so most counties hold them and count them all at one time.
We count all ballots every election, but with nearly 9 million votes, it takes a while.