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Also what's taking the US so long to count all the votes?

@coyote
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@matrix
@Jack @matrix If you are, wouldn't you tell me that you'd have to kill me if you told me what you just told me? Checkmate athiests.
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@coyote
Your voted for a third party, not like your vote mattered in the long run.
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@matrix When and in what order things are counted in depends on the state due to laws and on the county due to policy or factors specific to the county.

Some places, for example, won't be allowed to count a single mail-in ballot until some time this morning. Others won't release any stats until Thursday.

So even if a ballot arrived two weeks ago, it might not be counted until hours or even days after election night.

@r000t
Why is it so complicated though?
We have it significantly simpler and we have population of 10 million which is more than what majority of US states have.

During 2 weeks before the election everyone gets a voting ballot in mail.
Ballot boxes open at 14:00 and close at 22:00 then open at 8:00 and close 14:00 on Saturday. After that the votes are counted and usually within like 6-8 hours we know the results.

@r000t
Also why are your ballot boxes open in the middle of the week when people are at work or school?

@matrix Again, centuries of procedural cruft combined with 50 different rulesets about this make it a difficult question to answer.

Many states have added early voting, which just means we've replaced election day with an election season. You now don't disenfranchise people who work on election day (and that's going to be true no matter what day you pick, and the right will never ever for any reason allow a holiday to vote, again, they do NOT want people voting who would require a vacation day to vote), can handle more capacity (there's hundreds of millions more people here than when we built this system), and overall is a Very Good Thing.

@matrix @r000t
Simple. Prople who work hard tend to vote right...

You can make up the rest by yourself.

@matrix Because one of the political parties is doing everything in their power to prevent as many votes from being counted as possible.

But there's also just decades if not centuries of procedural cruft caused by corner cases.

Basically, both parties sue over each part of the process. How things are worded on the ballot, how many polling places there are, how many drop boxes there are, the hours, the number of workers, the number of polling machines, when things are allowed to be "canvassed" (sorted and ready to be counted), when things are allowed to be counted, when things are allowed to be announced, literally every single part of it. Every state, every election, there's unique lawsuits for each of these things.

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