Then they should not permit mail-in ballots after a month before any election, furthermore they should begin counting those ballots at midnight of the beginning of election day.
There are no excuses in election management, any deviancy from best practices established in the last century (paper; record; optical not digital; limited absentee fulfilling mandated reason; extremely limited vote-by-mail; no same-day registration; no open primaries) is directed at fraud.
Yes, I agree 100%. Up until this election, vote counters were not allowed to open any mail in ballots until after the polls closed. There is a new law that now allows them to start counting 5 or so days before election day. Also, mail in ballots are accepted via mail through the Friday after the election.
It does not appear any county started counting early. I checked today and there is still just under 1 million ballots to count.
Plus, there are oddities. Kern County, home to 1 million, only has one vote counting machine. I don’t know how many registered voters there are in Kern, but why is this acceptable?
It appears the voters of CA just shrug their shoulders and make no demand vote counting is conducted in a better way.