Recently, election chiefs in three swing states made excuses on television about not having the results of the elections on Election Day. This has been the standard in America for decades. It is still in many larger states.
Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Secretary of State, was asked on CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday how quickly she expected to receive the results. She responded in part by saying, “I’d estimate the end of the Wednesday, November 6th, as my best guess for how we will perform.”
Election officials are now promoting the same delays as the norm.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who joined the show Sunday, said due to a newly passed law regarding how elections are conducted, “All votes cast early and early accepted ballots will all have their results reported by 8 p.m.” This means that 70-75% of the total votes will be announced by 8 p.m.
Why can’t Georgia announce its results at election time? Raffensperger stated that the state will “wait for overseas ballots to arrive no later than the Friday of the week, and then those numbers will be final.”
Raffensperger’s decision to delay the arrival of what is a tiny number overseas Georgia ballots was baffling. The delay, whatever the cause, creates uncertainty and doubt in the minds American voters used to receiving results by election day.
Benson and Raffensperger, however, are not alone in their efforts to normalize the delays. Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State, told CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that in response to the controversy over delays between races being called and polls closing, that counties work “night and day” to count voters’ ballots.
Newsweek published an analysis of Aron Solomon with the headline “We are unlikely to know the winner on Election Night. That’s Ok.” The piece states that “patience is essential in today’s electoral landscape” and that Americans are unlikely to know their results on election night.
This excuse is not valid. In 2024, the use of mail in ballots may not be widespread like in 2020. It might even be lower than in 2016, when elections were called on the evening of the election.
Axios also said that the 2024 elections could be called in days, just as they were for 2020. You may remember the outcome of the election: former President Donald Trump led by 196,000 in Pennsylvania, with only 12% still uncounted. This was reported in Politico the day following the election day. After a flood of mail-in votes, which were overwhelmingly in Biden’s favor, the president was declared victorious a few days later.
CNN recently published an article titled, “Election Experts raise Fresh Alarms About Vote Counting Delays – And Chaos – In Battleground States.” It argues that even though Republicans may be ahead in the initial race, results could later change to elect a Democrat. CNN accuses voters who express concern about delayed election results of spreading “false stories about fraud.”
It’s a far cry from eight years ago when the disgraced New York Times reporter stated in an introductory film on the 2000 presidential election, “The only thing that no one anticipated in a campaign for president was that we would not know who had won by election day.”
The left, along with its allies in the propaganda media, are working hard to minimize concerns over delayed results. They keep voters waiting while they wait days for officials to release the outcome after the election.
The delays in our electoral process are understandable, but pointing out there is no reason behind them does not make you an election denier or someone who spreads “false stories about fraud”. On the contrary, it shows you have been paying attention and you think the elections were not conducted fairly or as freely as they could be.
Article by electionbriefing.com.
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