Votes must be counted by the end of Election Day.

[BasicHumanUnit]

More Proof that the domestic enemy is transforming America.

Now, they are more than happy to take weeks to decide elections.....why?....it gives more time to sway results.

I see no way whatsoever we are going to stop this eventual Communist takeover of America.
They are far too determined, and the opposition barely exists.

 

[OKTexas]

Like in 2000, counting overseas military ballots could become issue again in Florida

When the results were in the air and a recount was underway in Florida in the year 2000, the issue of counting late-arriving overseas military ballots became a political flashpoint. And now, heading into another hotly contested presidential race, expected to be a nail-biter in battleground...

cbs12.com

Congress established, by law, the first Tuesday in Nov. as election day. It's not a day that comes as a surprise to anyone. Any voter that can't get their ballot to election officials by the time the polls close on that day shouldn't have their vote counted, period. If it takes a few day to tabulate, that's fine, but no vote received late should be counted. I don't care who the individuals vote for, no excuses for a late ballot should be tolerated.

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[TemplarKormac]

Or must they?


Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa “We should know the result of the election on November 3rd, the evening of November 3rd. That’s the way it's been and that's the way it should be."

Except when it’s not. In fact...it has never been that way.

There has never been a requirement...or even an expectation that all ballots be tabulated by the end of Election Day. And they usually are not. It typically takes longer to count absentee ballots, which, by law, are just as valid as any other.

So if you want to know the way it has really always been, don’t listen to Trump who’s goal is to disenfranchise mail in voters.

FACT CHECK: Trump Falsely Claims That Votes Shouldn't Be Counted After Election Day

"I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers," Trump said. But the vote totals are never fully counted the same day.

www.npr.org

For starters, no state ever reports its final results on election night.

Typically, news outlets are able to declare winners the night of the election using partial counts and exit polls, which allow them to see how much of the vote is going to which candidate and calculate whether a candidate still has a path forward to win.

Each state has its own laws for when it needs to certify the election results, and none falls on Election Day.

Delaware is the only state that will certify its results within the same week as Election Day. Most states will certify their results in the last two weeks of November, with some states even extending until the second week of December.

Additionally, polls don't even close in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington until 11 p.m. ET, and Hawaii's polls don't close until midnight on the East Coast.

What's the point of an "election day" if all the votes aren't counted on that day?

You know most of the world doesn't start to count until the next day...

Goto polls on day one and count starts the next day 9 am...

Then the idea of an "election day" is flawed.

 

[skye]

You can not be counting votes for all of November and December 2020 and part of 2021

that's stupid and ridiculous.

that's only a Demonrat wet dream.

It will never happen. NEVER

The night of the election Americans have the right to know the results. Period.

 

[Coyote]

Or must they?


Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa “We should know the result of the election on November 3rd, the evening of November 3rd. That’s the way it's been and that's the way it should be."

Except when it’s not. In fact...it has never been that way.

There has never been a requirement...or even an expectation that all ballots be tabulated by the end of Election Day. And they usually are not. It typically takes longer to count absentee ballots, which, by law, are just as valid as any other.

So if you want to know the way it has really always been, don’t listen to Trump who’s goal is to disenfranchise mail in voters.

FACT CHECK: Trump Falsely Claims That Votes Shouldn't Be Counted After Election Day

"I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers," Trump said. But the vote totals are never fully counted the same day.

www.npr.org

For starters, no state ever reports its final results on election night.

Typically, news outlets are able to declare winners the night of the election using partial counts and exit polls, which allow them to see how much of the vote is going to which candidate and calculate whether a candidate still has a path forward to win.

Each state has its own laws for when it needs to certify the election results, and none falls on Election Day.

Delaware is the only state that will certify its results within the same week as Election Day. Most states will certify their results in the last two weeks of November, with some states even extending until the second week of December.

Additionally, polls don't even close in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington until 11 p.m. ET, and Hawaii's polls don't close until midnight on the East Coast.

Many states manage to clear their mail-ins by the next morning. Why shouldn't ALL of them be capable of doing this? We've gone too far to "easy and convienient".. Need to bring it back to ACCURATE and RELIABLE and TIMELY...

Florida didn’t in 2000.

Also, because of the pandemic many many more are mailed. As far as voting is concerned, no, I do not agree we have gone “too easy and convenient”, not with something as important as voting. I don’t care what party you vote for, it’s important. As long as it is postmarked on time, it should be counted, just like voting at the polls.

 

[SAYIT]

Or must they?


Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa “We should know the result of the election on November 3rd, the evening of November 3rd. That’s the way it's been and that's the way it should be."

Except when it’s not. In fact...it has never been that way.

There has never been a requirement...or even an expectation that all ballots be tabulated by the end of Election Day. And they usually are not. It typically takes longer to count absentee ballots, which, by law, are just as valid as any other.

So if you want to know the way it has really always been, don’t listen to Trump who’s goal is to disenfranchise mail in voters.

FACT CHECK: Trump Falsely Claims That Votes Shouldn't Be Counted After Election Day

"I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers," Trump said. But the vote totals are never fully counted the same day.

www.npr.org

For starters, no state ever reports its final results on election night.

Typically, news outlets are able to declare winners the night of the election using partial counts and exit polls, which allow them to see how much of the vote is going to which candidate and calculate whether a candidate still has a path forward to win.

Each state has its own laws for when it needs to certify the election results, and none falls on Election Day.

Delaware is the only state that will certify its results within the same week as Election Day. Most states will certify their results in the last two weeks of November, with some states even extending until the second week of December.

Additionally, polls don't even close in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington until 11 p.m. ET, and Hawaii's polls don't close until midnight on the East Coast.

It would be nice if we could, though.

It would nice if all votes could be counted by the end of election day, I agree, it’s just never been the case.

What has never been the case is waiting weeks for the result so that democrats can stuff the ballot box.

That is also the point of an extra 20-40 million votes. Create enough chaos and their fraud will be easy to cover.

You realize, of course, that the Republicans are just as capable of engaging in this unsubstantiated fraud, right?

In theory but we both know loyal Americans are far less likely to do so and as everyone knows, Dems are traitors ... every stinkin' one of 'em.

 

[OKTexas]

Or must they?


Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa “We should know the result of the election on November 3rd, the evening of November 3rd. That’s the way it's been and that's the way it should be."

Except when it’s not. In fact...it has never been that way.

There has never been a requirement...or even an expectation that all ballots be tabulated by the end of Election Day. And they usually are not. It typically takes longer to count absentee ballots, which, by law, are just as valid as any other.

So if you want to know the way it has really always been, don’t listen to Trump who’s goal is to disenfranchise mail in voters.

FACT CHECK: Trump Falsely Claims That Votes Shouldn't Be Counted After Election Day

"I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers," Trump said. But the vote totals are never fully counted the same day.

www.npr.org

For starters, no state ever reports its final results on election night.

Typically, news outlets are able to declare winners the night of the election using partial counts and exit polls, which allow them to see how much of the vote is going to which candidate and calculate whether a candidate still has a path forward to win.

Each state has its own laws for when it needs to certify the election results, and none falls on Election Day.

Delaware is the only state that will certify its results within the same week as Election Day. Most states will certify their results in the last two weeks of November, with some states even extending until the second week of December.

Additionally, polls don't even close in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington until 11 p.m. ET, and Hawaii's polls don't close until midnight on the East Coast.

The problem is this stupid mail in voting. In PA, they are accepting ballots up to three days after the election which should be against the law. Everybody is predicting PA will be the real decider, and that it will be a close election. We might not find out until next week or longer who actually won unless it's a blowout one way or another.

It is against the law, PA law says ballots must be received by the time the polls close. A State court is the one that decided otherwise, which is unconstitutional, only the legislature can change election laws. The State court will probably be overruled in the federal courts. SCOTUS should have addressed the violation of State law when they had the chance, instead of kicking the can down the road.

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[flacaltenn]

Oh no ... My vote gets tallied when I hit the send button on the machine.

But it can still BE a provisional vote. Especially if you were MAILED a ballot and it hasn't been received yet.. So it WON'T be tallied until it clears a separate records inspection AFTER election day.. They just unlock the machine with "another code" on your "button choices"...

 

[AZrailwhale]

Or must they?


Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa “We should know the result of the election on November 3rd, the evening of November 3rd. That’s the way it's been and that's the way it should be."

Except when it’s not. In fact...it has never been that way.

There has never been a requirement...or even an expectation that all ballots be tabulated by the end of Election Day. And they usually are not. It typically takes longer to count absentee ballots, which, by law, are just as valid as any other.

So if you want to know the way it has really always been, don’t listen to Trump who’s goal is to disenfranchise mail in voters.

FACT CHECK: Trump Falsely Claims That Votes Shouldn't Be Counted After Election Day

"I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers," Trump said. But the vote totals are never fully counted the same day.

www.npr.org

For starters, no state ever reports its final results on election night.

Typically, news outlets are able to declare winners the night of the election using partial counts and exit polls, which allow them to see how much of the vote is going to which candidate and calculate whether a candidate still has a path forward to win.

Each state has its own laws for when it needs to certify the election results, and none falls on Election Day.

Delaware is the only state that will certify its results within the same week as Election Day. Most states will certify their results in the last two weeks of November, with some states even extending until the second week of December.

Additionally, polls don't even close in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington until 11 p.m. ET, and Hawaii's polls don't close until midnight on the East Coast.

The problem is this stupid mail in voting. In PA, they are accepting ballots up to three days after the election which should be against the law. Everybody is predicting PA will be the real decider, and that it will be a close election. We might not find out until next week or longer who actually won unless it's a blowout one way or another.

In 2000, we waited almost 5 weeks until the SC had to "declare" a winner. Couple of days doesn't seem like a whole lot.

The Court did not declare a winner. The court stopped an attempt by Gore to steal the election. You are a retarded asshole.

And you're a liar. SCOTUS stopped the vote count.

SCOTUS ordered Florida to abide by its own law. A recount had to include all counties and be done by a universal standard, not be done only in heavily democratic counties using a methodology the favored Gore. The Florida courts, overrode the Secretary of State who wouldn’t permit the partial recount that Gore wanted.

 

[SAYIT]

Or must they?


Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa “We should know the result of the election on November 3rd, the evening of November 3rd. That’s the way it's been and that's the way it should be."

Except when it’s not. In fact...it has never been that way.

There has never been a requirement...or even an expectation that all ballots be tabulated by the end of Election Day. And they usually are not. It typically takes longer to count absentee ballots, which, by law, are just as valid as any other.

So if you want to know the way it has really always been, don’t listen to Trump who’s goal is to disenfranchise mail in voters.

FACT CHECK: Trump Falsely Claims That Votes Shouldn't Be Counted After Election Day

"I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers," Trump said. But the vote totals are never fully counted the same day.

www.npr.org

For starters, no state ever reports its final results on election night.

Typically, news outlets are able to declare winners the night of the election using partial counts and exit polls, which allow them to see how much of the vote is going to which candidate and calculate whether a candidate still has a path forward to win.

Each state has its own laws for when it needs to certify the election results, and none falls on Election Day.

Delaware is the only state that will certify its results within the same week as Election Day. Most states will certify their results in the last two weeks of November, with some states even extending until the second week of December.

Additionally, polls don't even close in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington until 11 p.m. ET, and Hawaii's polls don't close until midnight on the East Coast.

The problem is this stupid mail in voting. In PA, they are accepting ballots up to three days after the election which should be against the law. Everybody is predicting PA will be the real decider, and that it will be a close election. We might not find out until next week or longer who actually won unless it's a blowout one way or another.

It is against the law, PA law says ballots must be received by the time the polls close. A State court is the one that decided otherwise, which is unconstitutional, only the legislature can change election laws. The State court will probably be overruled in the federal courts. SCOTUS should have addressed the violation of State law when they had the chance, instead of kicking the can down the road.

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Dems have willfully set this election on a path to ruination. The court challenges will be endless and could last years but Dems don't care. They are angry, bitter, petulant crybabies who would much rather America crash & burn than succeed & prosper because they are traitors ... every stinkin' one of 'em.

 

[BlackSand]

I am thinking he means provisional in order to make sure you didn’t also send in a mail in ballot or someone else in your name.

When you hand them your ID they don't just look at it.
They run it through the scanner, and it verifies your status in regards to Registrar's Office.

It makes sure you get the right selections for your registered Precinct, and that you don't have a pending mail-in ballot request.
If you requested a mail-in ballot and decided to vote in person, you hand them the mail-in ballot and they either tear it up or stamp void on it.

Maybe you nit-wits need to elect some people that can come up with a decent, verifiable way to handle elections ... We managed to get it right.

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[flacaltenn]

There's no such thing as "all mail voting".. There are ALWAYS polls open on election day.. And that is just ONE weakness of the plan.. Because ALL those "in-person" votes should be treated as "provisionals" and NOT tallied until all the mail-ins are cleared and recorded...

Thank\s for your very odd opinion

It's not ODD at all.. As I just pointed out, if you walk into polling station in a "mass mail" state they will CHECK if you returned your ballot by mail before unlocking the machine.. Might ask you if you mailed it and when.. If there's any confusion -- as I just said to BlackSand above - you might get a "Provisional" ballot.. And those should not be cleared until ALL the mail-ins are tallied..

What's TRULY ODD Lesh-ter -- is how little opinionated leftists actually know about how things work..

 

[Nosmo King]

Yes! Because we all know it's the overseas service members who are responsible for all the constant voter fraud in Dem controlled areas. Those dang soldiers steal every election with their "right" to vote for non-marxist/fascists & it's just not fair!!!

Ever hear of COVID 19?

 

[flacaltenn]

Or must they?


Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa “We should know the result of the election on November 3rd, the evening of November 3rd. That’s the way it's been and that's the way it should be."

Except when it’s not. In fact...it has never been that way.

There has never been a requirement...or even an expectation that all ballots be tabulated by the end of Election Day. And they usually are not. It typically takes longer to count absentee ballots, which, by law, are just as valid as any other.

So if you want to know the way it has really always been, don’t listen to Trump who’s goal is to disenfranchise mail in voters.

FACT CHECK: Trump Falsely Claims That Votes Shouldn't Be Counted After Election Day

"I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers," Trump said. But the vote totals are never fully counted the same day.

www.npr.org

For starters, no state ever reports its final results on election night.

Typically, news outlets are able to declare winners the night of the election using partial counts and exit polls, which allow them to see how much of the vote is going to which candidate and calculate whether a candidate still has a path forward to win.

Each state has its own laws for when it needs to certify the election results, and none falls on Election Day.

Delaware is the only state that will certify its results within the same week as Election Day. Most states will certify their results in the last two weeks of November, with some states even extending until the second week of December.

Additionally, polls don't even close in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington until 11 p.m. ET, and Hawaii's polls don't close until midnight on the East Coast.

Many states manage to clear their mail-ins by the next morning. Why shouldn't ALL of them be capable of doing this? We've gone too far to "easy and convienient".. Need to bring it back to ACCURATE and RELIABLE and TIMELY...

Florida didn’t in 2000.

Also, because of the pandemic many many more are mailed. As far as voting is concerned, no, I do not agree we have gone “too easy and convenient”, not with something as important as voting. I don’t care what party you vote for, it’s important. As long as it is postmarked on time, it should be counted, just like voting at the polls.

Florida has nothing to do with this.. The dispute there was over chad. When in REALITY -- the ACCIURACY and RELIABILITY of the punch cards was BETTER than the more widely used Optical Scanners in Florida.. TOTAL control of the ballot was never the issue.. The machines were.

And we made the mistake to CAVE to the Dems whining about "touch screen" voting machines. And at the beginning -- LOST the entire paper trail of the votes.. We've recovered somewhat by PRINTING the output from the touch screen kiosks and taking the PAPER to an OPTICAL scanner as they do now in most places..

NEVER EVER should you allow the party that could not count 600,000 in their OWN IOWA PRIMARY -- with the people grouped right in FRONT of them -- to design your election systems..

 

[BlackSand]

But it can still BE a provisional vote. Especially if you were MAILED a ballot and it hasn't been received yet.. So it WON'T be tallied until it clears a separate records inspection AFTER election day.. They just unlock the machine with "another code" on your "button choices"...

Like I mentioned to Coyote ... It's cleared as far as any pending mail-in ballot request, before you can vote in person.
Like I mentioned to you ... I don't really care about the goofy mess the silly people where you are came up with.

There isn't anything 'provisional' about it when I cast my vote.

Edit:
Although I am starting to see why so many people here at USMB stress out about voting.
Y'all got a bunch of retards writing the laws, and running your elections.

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[Coyote]

You can not be counting votes for all of November and December 2020 and part of 2021

that's stupid and ridiculous.

that's only a Demonrat wet dream.

It will never happen. NEVER

The night of the election Americans have the right to know the results. Period.

Nice strawman.

(Demonrats? Ok, Retardicans)

Most states have a legal date to certify their elections by (Hawaii, TN, RI, NH and some US territories do not).

California is the latest, Dec 11th.

This is nothing new, it is written into their election laws, so no, counting will not go on forever.

 

[skye]

You can not be counting votes for all of November and December 2020 and part of 2021

that's stupid and ridiculous.

that's only a Demonrat wet dream.

It will never happen. NEVER

The night of the election Americans have the right to know the results. Period.

Nice strawman.

(Demonrats? Ok, Retardicans)

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DemonRats....yes

 

[OKTexas]

Yes! Because we all know it's the overseas service members who are responsible for all the constant voter fraud in Dem controlled areas. Those dang soldiers steal every election with their "right" to vote for non-marxist/fascists & it's just not fair!!!

Oh...that “constant voter fraud” myth. Other than isolated cases, it’s largely unsubstantiated. So...what is your p,an here for disenfranchising voters? Select out the military ones and dump the rest?

A comparable analogy would be saying, other than that one isolated bullet hitting you in the head, your shooting was largely unsubstantiated. LMAO There's fraud that has been documented and no amount of semantics will change that.

.

 

[Coyote]

Or must they?


Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa “We should know the result of the election on November 3rd, the evening of November 3rd. That’s the way it's been and that's the way it should be."

Except when it’s not. In fact...it has never been that way.

There has never been a requirement...or even an expectation that all ballots be tabulated by the end of Election Day. And they usually are not. It typically takes longer to count absentee ballots, which, by law, are just as valid as any other.

So if you want to know the way it has really always been, don’t listen to Trump who’s goal is to disenfranchise mail in voters.

FACT CHECK: Trump Falsely Claims That Votes Shouldn't Be Counted After Election Day

"I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers," Trump said. But the vote totals are never fully counted the same day.

www.npr.org

For starters, no state ever reports its final results on election night.

Typically, news outlets are able to declare winners the night of the election using partial counts and exit polls, which allow them to see how much of the vote is going to which candidate and calculate whether a candidate still has a path forward to win.

Each state has its own laws for when it needs to certify the election results, and none falls on Election Day.

Delaware is the only state that will certify its results within the same week as Election Day. Most states will certify their results in the last two weeks of November, with some states even extending until the second week of December.

Additionally, polls don't even close in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington until 11 p.m. ET, and Hawaii's polls don't close until midnight on the East Coast.

Many states manage to clear their mail-ins by the next morning. Why shouldn't ALL of them be capable of doing this? We've gone too far to "easy and convienient".. Need to bring it back to ACCURATE and RELIABLE and TIMELY...

Florida didn’t in 2000.

Also, because of the pandemic many many more are mailed. As far as voting is concerned, no, I do not agree we have gone “too easy and convenient”, not with something as important as voting. I don’t care what party you vote for, it’s important. As long as it is postmarked on time, it should be counted, just like voting at the polls.

Florida has nothing to do with this.. The dispute there was over chad. When in REALITY -- the ACCIURACY and RELIABILITY of the punch cards was BETTER than the more widely used Optical Scanners in Florida.. TOTAL control of the ballot was never the issue.. The machines were.

And we made the mistake to CAVE to the Dems whining about "touch screen" voting machines. And at the beginning -- LOST the entire paper trail of the votes.. We've recovered somewhat by PRINTING the output from the touch screen kiosks and taking the PAPER to an OPTICAL scanner as they do now in most places..

NEVER EVER should you allow the party that could not count 600,000 in their OWN IOWA PRIMARY -- with the people grouped right in FRONT of them -- to design your election systems..

I don’t know the ins and outs of Florida’s voting systems, but yes, the issue of late arriving ballots was part of the 2000 election boondoggle. Only this time it was the Republicans raising a fuss and Democrats challenging postmarks.

The military ballots that have divided Democrats for 15 years

Roughly a week and a half into the Florida recount, the issue of counting overseas absentee ballots came front and center, and ended up giving Team Bush a major victory in the court of public opinion.

www.cnn.com

Roughly a week and a half into the Florida recount, the issue of counting overseas absentee ballots came front and center, and ended up giving Team Bush a major victory in the court of public opinion.

On Wednesday, November 15, 2000, Al Gore lawyer Mark Herron sent a memo to Democratic recount observers telling them how to challenge late-arriving overseas absentee ballots that did not have a valid postmark on them.

This would have potentially thrown out the votes of hundreds of military members stationed overseas. In a race separated by about 300 votes at the time, these votes could have been decisive in choosing the next president.

 

[charwin95]

A

Everyone knows Democrats are cheaters and will do anything to cheat their way to victory. That's why president Trump and his supporters question dragging the election out days past the actual election.

So far none of you gullibles can prove that democrats cheats but here in California disgusting republicans set up fake ballots mail box all over. Glad authorities took them down. Then that lying cheater SOB encourage them to cheat. Both links came from Fox News below. Now You tell me what kind of president is that?

California AG sends cease and desist letter to state GOP amid reports of unofficial ballot boxes | Fox News

Trump directs California GOP to 'fight hard' in court over ballot boxes despite prosecution threat | Fox News

President Trump on Tuesday directed Republicans to “fight hard” in court after California’s top election and law enforcement officials, both Democrats, ordered the state GOP to remove unofficial ballot boxes from various locations in three counties by later this week or face prosecution.

www.foxnews.com