Why did election night time flip into election week?

Another election 12 months, one other election night time that has changed into an election week. With all of the technological progress we’ve made during the last 50 years, why has it all of a sudden develop into more durable to depend all of the votes on election night time?

Did individuals all of a sudden neglect methods to depend?

No, individuals can depend simply nice. The issue is that the Democrats have chosen to worth the precept of simple voting over environment friendly voting. As an alternative of constructing everybody present as much as a ballot on Election Day, and perhaps permitting some individuals to vote early by mail as a result of they should, Democrats have determined to permit anybody to vote any method they need, even when it means sorting and counting tens of millions of ballots days after the election.

“We had hamper after hamper of those pink baggage stuffed to the brim (with poll envelopes),” an election employee in Sacramento County, California, instructed Cal Issues in 2020. “It's a number of work, and once we get these large quantities again, we simply throw extra temps at it.”

In California, mail-in ballots stay legitimate, even when they're mailed on Election Day. Meaning poll counters have to attend days for the mail to be delivered earlier than they will end counting votes.

Cal Issues explains what the again finish seems like: “For elections workers, it’s like an meeting line. As soon as they obtain ballots, they scan them into the system. Somebody has to confirm that the signature on the poll envelope matches the signature of the registered voter. As soon as the signature is verified, elections officers can separate the ballots by precinct and put together to run them by way of a machine that counts the votes. There’s not one machine that does all of it. With mail-in or vote-by-mail ballots, people play a big function ensuring ballots are verified, sorted and make it into the counting machine. They're additionally there to troubleshoot if the machine goes awry.”

Contemplating that difficult course of, it is a miracle the vote lastly will get counted in any respect.

Perhaps, simply perhaps, our highest precedence on Election Day shouldn’t be making it as simple as attainable for everybody to vote. Perhaps individuals would belief elections extra if we went again to voting on Election Day, counting these votes, and asserting a winner that night time.

Different nations, comparable to France and even Italy, are capable of depend all their votes and announce election outcomes on the identical night time. We may too. All now we have to do is make it a precedence.