State Elections Board in GA adopts new rule requiring counties to start scanning absentee ballots...

[Nevilledog]

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Brendan Keefe
@BrendanKeefe
#BREAKING State Elections Board in Georgia adopts new rule requiring counties to start scanning absentee ballots at least eight days before election day. Applies to US Senate runoffs Jan 5. Previously this was voluntary. Tabulation of votes cannot start until election day.
7:01 AM · Nov 23, 2020

[Demsrule86]

1. Good.

[Statistical]

2. Good news going forward. This should be done EVERYWHERE. Even Blue States are not immune

to election law stupidity. Looking at you New York. 18 days after the election still nearly 1.5 million ballots need to be counted. Under the law they couldn't even start counting mail in ballots until 7 days after election day and some counties opted to not start until 10 days after election day. That is indefensibly stupid.

[Ms. Toad]

4. You've got the law wrong.

New York is permitted to start processing the morning of election day, and start counting the moment the polls close. McKinneys election law, section 9-209.

I don't know when they actually started counting them, but nothing in the law prevented counting them immediately after polls closed.

[Nimble_Idea]

6. still stupid

and Florida is doing better than NY. Should be VERY ASHAMED. FLORIDUH!

[Ms. Toad]

7. Agreed.

It only makes sense when absentee ballots are a tiny fraction of the total ballots.

[central scrutinizer]

3. In Oregon they start seven days before

And keep at it as ballots arrive. Polls close at 8PM and preliminary results are immediately available. Just last minute ballots from drop boxes are left to process.

[obamanut2012]

5. Here in FL, they start counting as soon as they are received

And, then are added into the count as soon as polls close. FL does many things wrong with its GOP "Tammany Hall" election shenanigans, but they do this right.

[Wednesdays]

8. K&R. nt