[Slyfox]

Absentee ballots are supposed to be counted ahead of the election because they are supposed to be counted along side the actual vote.

I worked as an election judge for 5 presidential elections and when I would go to get my kit a couple days before the election, it was my job to go thru the list of the early and absentee voters and stamp them on the voter roll as having voted early. On election night is when all the votes are tabulated.

What is happening in the states having problems is a combination of fraud and people taking advantage of other people not knowing how it is supposed to be done.

Provisional ballots are not supposed to be added to the vote at all. They are of questionable status and that bag is not opened unless the vote is legally challenged. At that time the provisionals are opened and decided upon.

It makes me go bat crap crazy when I hear the dems demanding that the provisionals be added to the vote.

[Spirit of Liberty]

Each state is different; some do have rules in place that they record an absentee/early/mail-in ballot was received, but the actual counting of the vote doesn't begin until election day.

How it's done in one state doesn't mean it's done that way in all states.

[TexasGator]

“Absentee ballots are supposed to be counted ahead of the election because they are supposed to be counted along side the actual vote.”

Georgia begins counting after the polls close.

[TexasGator]

“Provisional ballots are not supposed to be added to the vote at all.”

If they are valid they are added.