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In reply to the discussion: In a rare step, 3 South Dakota counties are set to vote on counting ballots by hand [View all]BumRushDaShow
(161,211 posts)The whole voting process here is NOT the same as the rest of the world and is not controlled by the federal government, but by the states, with the feds mainly dealing with a narrow type of election dealing with federal officeholders.
We just watched both Mexico and India carrying out voting that went on for WEEKS. That spreads out the number of votes tallied in a day. There are states here that don't have that - you vote on election day and that's it.
(from here - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/early-person-voting-strong-option-concerned-voters/story?id=72248475)
You also have a loon GOP who purposely slows the process of tallying votes - notably mail voting where available, forcing workers to WAIT until election day when the polls open in the morning, to open envelopes and extract ballots for counting. But those mail ballots have signatures on the envelopes that must be "matched" and fucking dates that must be there or the vote is discarded (this is still being litigated here in PA with a new case that started up last week).
I just showed you the operation for tallying JUST the mail votes here in Philly where they were working 24/7 to process 375,000 mail ballots that were then fed into machines to count. Trying to do that "by hand" for every office and/or ballot question in one day, is impossible.
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