Completely unacceptable to not have a result the night of the election. Zero reason to 1) allow these crazy mail-in ballots & 2) if you have to have them, there is ZERO reason for them to not be tabulated and counted before election night.
Counting mail-in ballots before Election Day is a disaster. It gives partisan/crooked election officials a chance to send ballots back to voters to “fix” them and get them returned a second time before Election Day.
The "losing" side then knows that they have to gin a bunch of fake ones up. And double their drop-box stuffing efforts.
Wasn’t mail-ins rejected from the military because they didn’t get there in time and I think that was because the military didn’t get them in time to mail back.
Anyone know anything about that?
I want to say it was when 0 was running. Maybe Cartoon.
“Completely unacceptable to not have a result the night of the election.”
Absolutely. When I was in charge of elections in a major city the absentee ballots were incorporated with the day’s ballots and all counted (run through machines) together. No excuse for dragging it out until the next day.