When will your ballot be counted in the 2020 election? A look at what goes into the tallying process

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The last day to vote in the 2020 general election is Nov. 3. But ballots may not be counted for several days, if not weeks, after that date, experts said.

Despite these new complexities, experts are confident voters' ballots will be counted this election season.

While some absentee ballots are ultimately rejected, it remains a very small percentage of the overall vote. In the 2016 general election, under 1% of absentee ballots were rejected, according to the. In many states, voters can track the status of their absentee ballot online, and there also are processes to contest or cure absentee ballots that are initially rejected.

An election judge wearing a protective mask prepares mail-in ballots to be scanned by the Montgomery County Board of Elections at a recreation center in Germantown, Md., Oct. 20, 2020. Processing absentee ballots generally includes steps short of tabulating them -- such as removing them from the envelope, confirming voter eligibility, matching signatures to what's on record and scanning them.

 

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POTUS here’s some interesting reading while you await the results.

If you are turned away at the polls your response is, “Give me a provisional ballot with a receipt as required by law.” Pass it on.

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at least half of the votes coming in by mail means there needs to be time to count them. that’s all there is to it. the right is doing everything in its power to not have our votes matter. don’t let them win

It’s legal to count votes “lawfully” cast... Ballots must be lawful (i.e., postmarked on time, filled out properly, signed, etc.). Don’t mislead your Twitter readers.

If you wanted to rig elections, hack a few voting machines on election day. Just enough to win the electoral college.

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They make up the rules as they go along. It's basically Calvinball.

No follow-up reporting on whether the Postal Service is behaving? OK, CNN, MSNBC, BuzzFeedNews, nprpolitics...great job! I am sure to make money later you will report on what a miracle it was trump somehow got 235K more votes to win. The same amount of Americans dead by 11/3.

What are the differences between states? It is so fucking easy to track my ballot and make sure it’s counted in my state… What is going on elsewhere?

Here’s a great newsy story tip:

If every state acted like Massachusetts their ballots would be fine and ready to be counted. What’s wrong with these other states?

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They throw them all away and make up the numbers afterwards. Much quicker

Then explain to me, why do we know the victor before time for the late news?

So, let it lag so that all the votes available can be counted. We can wait for the full measure to come in. The Trump camp would love it to be over as in prior elections on election night and him winning, but we're in different times now with the pandemic all over this country.

By ballot was delivered to my neighbor needless to say I did not trust USPS to mail it back used a dropbox

Anything to try to delay or caused out in the outcome when President Trump wins this is absolutely outrageous and unconstitutional this has never happened in American history

They are paying people $100 a day just to work at the voting places. They still need workers. Why don't people want to help count the ballots?

That's why we just put our masks on and went in person to cast our early votes for Biden. The mail situation is just too iffy right now.

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Voter fraud

Yep and Trump stays our President, thank God.

This is one reason that states need to have early and/or mail in voting.

Trump calls Black Lives Matter a 'symbol of hate' as he digs in on race.

Are you going to report about Kamala illegally campaigning at the voting polls? And why she is not still arrested. That’s so wrong.

I saw some vd that they throw away large amount of Trumps ticket , how they prove it fair game as twitter n FB keep blocking people share Hunter vd n photos today ?

Trump wins by 65000000. Hang on we found some ballots in pennsylvania 65000001 for joe he wins

Where's Hunter and when is ABC going to Report on the Tapes, texts and email that are being Exposed , is Joe being Blackmailed by China ?

Mask up and vote in person. Republicans are still messing with the mail in places like Michigan (only 72% delivered within five days in Detroit for example) and have brought suits to throw out votes in Pennsylvania. Blatant cheating.

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It's a good idea to track your ballots.

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DON’S BODY COUNT AS OF TODAY 230,086 of children, Moms & Dads as he continues his plan of “IT IS WHAT IT IS” DON’S PLAN of Herd Immunity will take 80% of the citizens to become infected resulting in US 3,310,026 DEATHS! Instead of fighting his CDC & FDA, HE SHOULD JUST BE HONEST!

Send your ballot in EARLY and vote as soon as you can! The sooner people vote the sooner we get definitive results.

If you’re dropping off your ballot at the post office, please go inside to get a postmark date stamp on your ballot just in case if there’s a delay in processing, that’s my opinion 😊

Just count the votes. Patience is a virtue. wecanwait VoteBidenHarris2020

I don’t get why ballots just don’t get counted now.

They have a “Absentee” ballot tracker here...

それ約分できるんじゃね

Get it right! And get that idiot out of office

Looks like Titanic.

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