Every four years I am always excited for this day. No more mass political mailings. No more big discussions on who, why, what. The next four years gets decided and we get on with life. And yes there are still ongoing voting the next four years, but president is the biggie.
This has been an incredibly odd year. Just overall. Due to the pandemic, mail in voting became more of a thing country wide with a lot of pushback. Ever since it came up many people decided it was going to amount to a tremendous amount of voter fraud. Here's the thing...there is voter fraud. People voting who shouldn't be. I'm sure a couple of dead people will have ballots cast...and hence the signature checking before a ballot is counted. But in order for voter fraud to make a big difference in the outcome it would have to be countrywide and in big numbers. As soon as the talk of voter fraud starts before the election, I feel like someone already knows their party may not win and is setting it up.
My state has been doing mail in only ballots for many years now. And it works pretty smoothly. I received my ballot before I went to Indiana. I cast my vote and dropped it in the ballot box. It wasn't that I didn't trust the mail, but I was in town and going by the box. Why have postage paid when I am right there. So I'm good.
And then tonight I finally tuned in to the news to see what we know. Due to the whole country having a mail in option we already know we probably won't know today. People had till today to vote and that includes mail in. Mail in has to be postmarked by today but obviously won't get to the counting until delivered by the postal service. I believe that most states set the deadline for mail in ballots to be received is Friday at 5 p.m.
And now we wait as votes are counted. Some as they come in.
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