Mark Joseph Stern
@mjs_DC
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Democratic legislators in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin begged Republicans to let election officials start processing and counting mail ballots well before Election Day. Republicans refused, which is why we will not know the winner of the presidential election tonight.
Can anyone confirm this? If it's true, I would like to know the reasoning. There could be a valid reason on the fraud front depending on the security of the count, but otherwise there should be no reason not to, for instance, count all mail-in ballots received through 02NOV, on 02NOV, then count the remaining stragglers on 03NOV.
I could see a concern if dems wanted to county daily for several weeks before election day, since you increase the probability of fraud or screw ups.