Posted on 09/21/2024 6:14:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In 2020, the United States did not have election night so much as election week. Factors including a slow count of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania delayed declaring Joe Biden the winner until the Saturday after Election Day, giving then-President Donald Trump time to allege fraud — allegations that resulted in the Jan. 6, 2021, effort to overturn the results.
This year, some — but only some — of the thousands of people responsible for administering U.S. elections have learned the lessons of four years ago. Americans should prepare themselves for another difficult post-election period — even if it is unlikely to be as chaotic as 2020.
The U.S. Postal Service appears to be taking seriously concerns about mail reliability expressed last week by the National Association of Secretaries of State. The nonpartisan group warned that “lost or delayed election mail” risks disenfranchising voters. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy replied that training has been improved to expedite delivery of election-related material, and that in 2020 nearly 98 percent of ballots were returned to election officials within three days. All the same, voters should return ballots early — with plenty of time to spare — and give extra attention to every requirement. Many states allow voters to “cure” ballots missing critical information within a certain period of time.
Even if USPS excels, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin prohibit the counting of mail-in ballots until Election Day, no matter when they arrive. This slowed down the count in 2020. Divided governments in both states failed to fix this quirk in how they count. Arizona and Nevada have often taken multiple days to fully count, too. Elections officials say they’ve hired more workers to process ballots, but it will probably still take longer to tally...
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Still shilling for the Deep State, I see.
I like that idea. Send it to RNC.
Yeah...And the ability to process information has increased at least 50 fold since then. Probably multiples of that.
In 2008 the mail-in ballots overwealmed out small county. Now we just expect a huge number of votes-by-mail which bythe way we have no idea who actually voted that ballot. This is how the communists took control and they wont’ be givin up.
Fix 2020 first. Right those wrongs. Punish the enemy.
That’s idiotic. Back then it took 3 or 4 days for a check to clear. Now it takes a few seconds.
How come so many other developed countries can do it in one night?
I like what I heard Oklahoma does. Mail in ballots are required to be notarized.
That, alone, should be legal grounds for decertifying any state's election results.
Chain-of-custody is a fundamental requirement of an honest election.
New York Times has the same shpiel. The fix is in
Well we can do something about it but not many are willing to do it..Fact is we all will hang separately.
Yep! That’s exactly what it sounding like. They’re telling us stupid people to be patient while they dig out more votes from the grave! They think Americans or shall I say 65% of Americans are stupid. They are setting us up for the great steal! It’s so obvious.
That day will be excruciating. Perhaps a self induced coma is in order rather than what we are going to experience that night. Just thinking about it gets my gut all in knots! Honestly folks I’m scared chitless because of what is at stake here. I have no faith in the election process anymore… They got away with it once what makes you so sure they won’t do it again. They have tried to assassinate trump twice and have failed you don’t think their VERY LAST option is to rig the election? THEY WILL STOP AT NOTHING! Their power is on the line and the DC SWAMP DEMONS are not going quietly into the sunsets without a fight.
Interesting that the Liberal Media never explained to us on why they were "slow" to count the mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. 🤔
There’s this thing called “the opposition party”. If one side is cheating, it becomes incumbent upon the opposition party to find a solution and stop the cheaters from cheating. If they can’t do that, then they deserve to lose.
It’s like cops and robbers. The robbers are going to steal because that’s what they do. It’s up to the cops to stop them. If the cops can’t stop them, they lose and the robbers win.
Agree!
Excellent point.
> I plan to be away. <
That’s probably the best plan. Go hiking in the wilderness somewhere. Or unplug your radio and TV and go work on chess puzzles. Then after two days or so, take a shot of whiskey and see what the FReepers have to say.
But identifying who voted a certain ballot negates the promise of “secret ballot”.
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