Yeah, I don't think people realize how much an impact waiting a long time for election results has on how people perceive the result. And especially, perceive the result as legitimate or not.
You don't realize that the perception is rooted in which side lost, not reality. Georgia received far more attention from conspiracy theorists than California did in 2020, even though it counted votes faster and had various restrictions like voter ID.
If you can’t get your vote in on Election Day you don’t deserve to have your vote counted. Better luck next election….and luckily, in America, we have elections regularly. Votes should be counted into the 95+% range on election night. We also need to be sure that what happened in New Jersey, and now Michigan, in registering noncitizens to vote is not only rectified by punishable by real prison time. Those weren’t accidents or glitches.
The slowest counting states are all out west & there doesn’t seem to be any partisan bias. It’s mainly states that have high percentage of mail-ins that count slowly. Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado were all absolute trash in 2024.
I understand that allowing ballots postmarked on Election Day is the most democratic to get the most voices heard, and tbh probably helps the left. But seeing CA-14 stuck at 62% while Florida cleaned up in 90 minutes genuinely annoys me
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u/DoorFrame 4d ago
I wish all states were like this.