Florida Election software Flips Vote: Losers Certified as Winners

[Land Shark]

169. we DO NOT need to know the winner by 10pm EST or so. That being said...

If there is TOO MUCH of a delay in announcing vote totals, the longer this goes on the more there is the inference that something improper is going on (e.g. after 24 hours or more this inference would start to gain traction). As soon as ballots leave the polling place, actual and potential chain of custody issues start to arise.

So, there are issues and problems both with doing things too FAST (and with enough speed or the perceived need for speed, the human eye can't follow even though it is visible, which is the key to sleight of hand magic tricks and some frauds) and with things going too slowly. Hand counting paper ballots in the precincts themselves provides the perfect combination of not too fast and not too slow, as well as transparency and visibility, allowing any reasonable number of folks and volunteers to participate or be watchdogs.