Every vote should be counted, however long it takes, but I think it's unaccetable that one of the richest nations in the world cannot reliably call elections on election night in a transparent and accountable manner when pretty much everyone else can. Fixing this is so important!https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1060885522103590916 …
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Length of time to result adds to drama, loss of trust and (even more) negative politicization of the electoral process and political uncertainty. Most of the obstacles are solveable—only a really really small subset of races should be outstanding next day. https://twitter.com/jennygadget/status/1060901628520198144 …
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Put another way: it's normal for a few races to be outstanding, but this much uncertainty days into post-election is outside global norms. We've let our electoral infrastructure to crumble and/or be politicized and weaponized. Fixing this should be the highest political priority.
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I don’t think you know about all the issues. We currently do not reliably get absentee ballots to voters, much less enable them to return them quickly.
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Dude, don't be in the position of arguing that Professor Tufecki doesn't know what she's talking about. It's a bad look. And her saying "we don't choose solve these problems" (absentee delivery, etc) is different than "you don't know these are problems".
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I agree and personally also wish we would go the early-vote/voter-marked-ballot/risk-limiting-audit path. However, I think "mail in ballots and stop being obsessed with real-time results" is a compelling alternative scheme. What do we actually lose by waiting a week for results?
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Loss of trust, increase in drama.
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In some states mail in ballots can be postmarked on election day. There is no way to count all votes until all votes have arrived.
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You've been to Florida?
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We trust ATMs. How hard could it be to vote electronically?
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It's a common question! Financial systems are based on the idea that both parties can keep exact receipts and connect people to specific transactions. Voting systems *cannot* connect people to votes after the fact or it would allow coercion and vote buying.
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