So, do candidates behind on election night often make up 6000+ vote deficits?

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5. There is no reason to adopt Oregon's system because it has no advantages whatsoever

So fucking what if 20% of ballots arrived after Election Day? KCE was way, way behind on validating the fucking signatures of the ballots they already had, so it isn't a "problem" at all, let alone a "problem that is getting worse." And Oregon was every bit as far behind (even though they use inaccurate electronic signature validation), so where is their advantage? BTW, King County more or less matched Multnomah, even though it has twice the population.

Jesus H fucking kerist!! What is so hard to understand about the basic systems fact that the SLOW STEP determines the rate of the overall process? Disenfranchising people will not make the slow step any faster.

Hiring more people to clear the backlog would be fine with me, but not with your generic taxpayer.

Besides which, only 9% of the WA population cares about counting ballots faster, and fuck them.