[packagingguy]

We knew that Macron had won his election before we went to bed on election night.

Why exactly are we suddenly having problems and delays in election results? We didn’t have this problem before.

This was discussed by the United Nations when observing elections in Africa:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37243190

Someone has made the suggestion that red counties should delay reporting of the vote so metropolitan areas don’t know how many votes to “find” after election day.

[mmichaels1970]

Someone has made the suggestion that red counties should delay reporting of the vote so metropolitan areas don’t know how many votes to “find” after election day.

That's not a half-bad idea. What if you had a state elections law that said NO county or precinct could release ANY results until all votes were counted and all precincts reported "done". That wouldn't "disenfranchise" a single vote. You may still have issues with fraud, but you'd eliminate the "suddenly found in the middle of the night" boxes.