Today @ 4:20 p.m. / Pollz
POLL! Is it a Problem That California Takes So Long to Count Ballots?
This morning, the New York Times’ editorial board joined a growing chorus of voices singing an increasingly impatient song: California takes too damn long to count its ballots.
In an editorial entitled “California’s Excuses are Damaging Faith in Government” — guest link here — the Times argues that the slow, slow pace of tabulation we’ve fallen into after the pandemic, when we switched to universal mail-in ballots, is not just a minor annoyance. It’s causing a crisis of faith in government itself.
What do you think? Is that so? Do we need to make changes?
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“No. It’s just an inevitable side effect of making elections both 1) secure and 2) as easy as possible for people to participate in. Both of those are good things. So in some cases you’re not going to know the final result for a few weeks. So what? You have someplace to be?”
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“Yes. Look, I might not like it either, but the reality is that the longer we sit around waiting for results the more some people’s minds are going to tell them that something hinky is going on behind the scenes. This is a serious problem, and we have to reform our election laws at least somewhat to address it.”
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“Burn it all down. I stand with President Trump. California is clearly cheating.”
186 votes cast.
Poll closes: Tomorrow @ 4:20 p.m.
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