If it was a Trump or DeSantis article, it’d be a 50+ bash-fest.
We get the government we deserve.
What the author overlooks is that collecting ballots and counting votes BEFORE Election Day is a much bigger problem than counting votes for weeks afterward.
If it was a Trump or DeSantis article, it’d be a 50+ bash-fest.
We get the government we deserve.
>What the author overlooks is that collecting ballots and counting votes BEFORE Election Day is a much bigger problem than counting votes for weeks afterward.<
When I worked the polls in PA, albeit 30 years ago, all absentee ballots had to be in your voting precinct’s hands by election day, not some large central location. You could only vote absentee if you would physically be unable to be present on election day.
When a voter would present themselves to vote, there was already a record if they had mailed in the absentee ballot. If they had, the absentee ballot was removed.
After the close of balloting the machine totals were recorded and the remaining absentee ballots were counted. The combined totals were then transported to the county elections office. Easy peasy, no shenanigans or malarkey. Of course that was a republican precinct.
I later moved to NC. I had filled out an absentee ballot request, received it in the mail and diligently mailed it back to have it arrive by election day. I was eventually able to make it on election day. I notified the volunteer that I had mailed an absentee ballot and she looked at me like I had 3 eyes. She told me to go to the box of absentees and find it myself. Of course this was a rather blue voting district.
This is all a wordy tale to explain that it can be done very easily if there is no intention to deceive or cheat.
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