I guess it depends on what is considered timely...
by Kbyrnes (2024-03-24 15:53:32)
Edited on 2024-03-24 15:53:54

In reply to: California is, or was, still counting votes two weeks after  posted by G.K.Chesterton


...I think I posted something to this effect a few years back, so I apologize if it's redundant.

Generally speaking, no jurisdiction has a legal deadline requiring that all the votes be counted by the day after the election, much less midnight on election day as some candidate out there has suggested. There is a date certain, of course, by which the vote totals must be certified. If they are certified by that date then I am not moved by any passion to insist that they should have been counted sooner. We have been sort of brainwashed by TV networks that have misled many people into thinking that elections are officially called the evening of the election. They are unofficially called by the talking-head pundits; and because we hate to wait for things, want to be satisfied instantly that the matters are settled. It's the American way, I suppose.


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