Folks think all mail voting will delay election results

[GreenEyedLefty]

11. I don't know how much time that would save

I forgot to mention that the rooms have envelope opening machines that can open hundreds of envelopes in just a few minutes. I estimate it took me less than 5 seconds per ballot to remove the ballot from the envelope, match the numbers and pass the ballot to the next person. That's at least 720 ballots per hour. We had 40 people doing this one piece on Aug. 4. They are saying we could be processing and counting until midnight or later... so 7 am to midnight is 17 hours, minus meals and breaks.

Oakland County has 990,000 registered voters. If even half of them request absentee ballots, and half of the towns and cities ask us to count at our central location, we are talking about 250,000 ballots. I think we can do this by midnight on November 3.

They are already saying the measure would only give clerks 10 hours to process as many ballots as possible. And the measure only applies to municipalities of 25,000 people or more. I am heartened by the bipartisan measure but clerks will need more support than that.