[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, ya see - on "regular" elections, they can count ALL of them overnight .....

And LA County, San Diego County, and many internal counties have ALL their ballots on punch cards.

[sd-joe]

It's not the counting, its verifying the signatures and ensuring that they did not also vote in the poles, that takes the time

[kingu]

Well, ya see - on "regular" elections, they can count ALL of them overnight .....

Absentee ballots delivered on the day of the election or the day before have traditionally taken time to count. This is nothing surprising, other than the huge number of the ballots. If their numbers are right, the remaining absentee ballots will equal what the entire absentee returns were a few years ago. Pretty amazing...