This is Arizona. From the Maricopa County Recorder at 11 AM Arizona time to day:
“For those keeping tally, that’s approximately:
86,000 Early Ballot drop offs Friday, Sat, Sun
50,000 Monday
275,000+ Election Day
The Board will also tabulate any in-person ballots it received yesterday that were not read by the tabulators (approximately 17,000).”
https://twitter.com/stephen_richer/status/1590404227121438720
This is all due to Arizona voting 80-90% by mail! Signatures need to be checked and verified before being counted. But those outstanding, LATE-ARRIVING ballots normally are strongly Republican. They received 100,000 more sealed ballots on Election Day delivered IN PERSON than they did in 2020.
Thanks. I think y’all handle electoral things differently than we do here. We don’t have mail-in ballots other than absentee ones. The state doesn’t mail them out unless you request one, and only for certain reasons. We do have early voting and, of course, day of voting. Also provisional balloting if there’s some reason to use that (like they say you’ve already voted when you show up, but I’ve not seen that happen often). So like Florida, it’s all counted pretty quickly. Gotta get rid of these ballots that are mailed to everyone. I think that’s a problem guaranteeing fraud of some type.
Another ballot drop from Pima County this morning brought Kari Lake less than 1 point and less than 12,000 votes behind Katie Hobbs, with less than 70% of the total votes counted.
I like those odds