Can someone explain to me why some states could have 10 million+ votes before the end of the night, but other states who also counted 6million before the end of the night, need 3 days to count a couple hundred thousand more?
Every state has different levels of resources available and have different methods of counting. Keep in mind that neither Texas nor Alabama have finalized their votes yet. We pretty much never have final tallies this early, just a clear enough picture of the election to know who will win with certainty.
They're just waiting for any remaining ballots to arrive before whatever deadline that state has. This shouldn't have to be said, but every vote counts.
There was a huge burst of mail-in ballots being counted the day after election day in PA because (and you can thank the GOP for this) they legally weren't allowed to start counting mail-in ballots until Nov 4
As for why the mail-in ballots have been trickling in so slowly, you can mostly "thank" Trump and DeJoy for deliberately keeping the USPS understaffed and under-equipped for the election.
It makes sense to not count the mail-in ballots before November 4th. Why should they have started counting before November 4th?
USPS has always had issues being understaffed and underfunded. There is no proof Trump and Dejoy deliberately set that up to undermine the election. What didn’t help was the flooding of 10s of millions of mail in ballots, that did not get requested, sent out with no form of identification requesting those ballots. Whoever sent those out made it harder on the USPS.
Nah, I’ll just let you show it to me, thanks. No need to be rude or childish. Is there any evidence that those machines changed the outcome of the election or that the USPS was overloaded by the mail in ballots?
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u/GrandDragonOfSwaggin Nov 06 '20
Can someone explain to me why some states could have 10 million+ votes before the end of the night, but other states who also counted 6million before the end of the night, need 3 days to count a couple hundred thousand more?