By Phil Roeder from Des Moines, IA, USA - Election Day 2020, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95815380

Midterm election results may come after election day. This comes from a number of factors, including the processing and counting of ballots. Election rules also play a significant role in why results may not be official until days or weeks after election night. One of the biggest reasons for the potential delay is mail-in or absentee ballots.

After the 2020 presidential election, an election cycle in which we saw the most amount of mail-in ballots, results weren’t officially called until days after polls closed. This led many to believe election results had been tampered with for several reasons. One of the top reasons is that the majority of mail-in voters are Democrats which gives the Democrats a good motive to find more votes, though it is also harder to oversee mail-in ballot counting, and many laws keep mail-in ballots reserved until polls open. It could be important to keep in mind the following state rules in tight-race states.



Comments

  1. So the usual culprits.. Those where election tampering happened last time have already warned us of it happening again…

  2. Late??Where do they find the ballots they need to change
    the totals that they do not like. Many of us do not like the gas
    prices, food prices and whats happening with education.And
    the Republicans are 2 points ahead??Who likes these policies?
    We have a lot of elites or some sick people.

  3. Mail-in ballots are NOT a valid excuse for delays. Any delays claimed to be caused by mail-in ballots is an immediate indicator of election mis-management, incompetent or corrupt election officials. There are early voting and mail-in ballot deadlines for a reason. There is no acceptable reason that mail-in ballot envelopes can’t be validated and retained unopened prior to election day, and then opened and tallied on election day as if the voter had cast their ballot in person. There is no acceptable reason that the state does not know the total number of validated mail-in ballots needed to be tallied on election day, well before election day, and there is no excuse that number of total validated ballot envelopes does not remain the same after the ballots are tallied on election day. Any state that waits until election day to validate mail-in voting ballot envelopes (without opening or tallying candidates), and does not go into election day already knowing the total number of validated mail-in ballots to account for BEFORE votes are tallied for the candidates on the ballot, is intentionally managing voting in a manner to facilitate mail-in ballot fraud, and should be automatically ausited and investigated.

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