The Next President is...

[arg]

In NM you need ID to register. At the polls they ask some PII. So there is room for some fraud. Significant numbers would take time but I guess it's possible.

[M2]

As of five minutes ago... GOP 216 seats, Democrats 207.  Here are the statuses of the remaining races...

Alaska At-Large District: Republican Nick Begich is leading incumbent Democrat Mary Peltola by over 10,000 votes.
Arizona's 6th District: Incumbent Republican Juan Ciscomani is ahead of Democrat Kirsten Engel by 4,900 votes.
California's 9th District: Democrat Josh Harder is leading Republican Kevin Lincoln by more than 7,000 votes.
California's 13th District: Freshman GOP Rep. John Duarte is ahead of Democrat Adam Gray by nearly 3,000 votes.
California's 21st District: Democrat Jim Costa is leading Republican Michael Maher by just over 1,300 votes.
California's 22nd District: Republican David Valadao is ahead of Democrat Rudy Salas by 9,500 votes.
California's 41st District: Republican Ken Calvert is leading Democrat Will Rollins by more than 7,500 votes.
California's 45th District: GOP incumbent Michelle Steel is ahead of Democrat Derek Tran by 3,900 votes.
California's 47th District: Democrat David Min is leading Republican Scott Baugh by more than 3,200 votes.
California's 49th District: Democrat Mike Levin is ahead of Republican Matt Gunderson by 14,000 votes.
Iowa's 1st District: Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks is leading Democrat Christina Bohannan by 796 votes.
Maine's 2nd District: Democrat Jared Golden is ahead of Republican Austin Theriault by more than 2,100 votes.

If everything stays on track, the GOP will end up with 223 seats and the Democrats 212.  Iowa's 1st District is the closest vote difference with only just under 800 votes...

[TreeA10]

I'm baffled in this age of near instantaneous information exchange, Google searches in microseconds, and real time tracking of millions of package locations by freight carriers, why the hell can't votes be counted in a day? A week is just plain stupid.

[HeloDude]

8 minutes ago, TreeA10 said:

I'm baffled in this age of near instantaneous information exchange, Google searches in microseconds, and real time tracking of millions of package locations by freight carriers, why the hell can't votes be counted in a day? A week is just plain stupid.

Someone has to explain to me how it’s not due to incompetence, or worse (hopefully not), due to shady stuff going on.

[Smokin]

Some may be mail in ballots that had questionable signatures and needed to be verified, ballots that the machine rejected and have to be counted by hand, things like that.  But in general, I agree.  I voted in person this year for the first time in 20 years and the machine took my ballot as fast as copier and a little green light came on indicating that everything was good and it was counted.  My vote was registered into the state count within seconds.

[uhhello]

AZ's yearly response is 'we do it right'.  Sure, almost every other state gets them done in a couple of days at most and they just haphazardly tabulate ballots and what not.  

[ViperMan]

4 hours ago, TreeA10 said:

I'm baffled in this age of near instantaneous information exchange, Google searches in microseconds, and real time tracking of millions of package locations by freight carriers, why the hell can't votes be counted in a day? A week is just plain stupid.

Laws. Regulations. Regulatory capture. Bureaucracy. Safety. Equity. Fairness. Status quo. Oversight. Risk-mitigation. Risk-aversion. Precaution. Guard rails. Red tape. Protocol. Compliance. Special interests. Precedent. 

Motherhood abounds in our society. Votes could be counted nearly instantaneously if we really wanted them to be. But it wouldn't be fair to some person, in some place, at some time. Or something.

Edited 4 hours ago by ViperMan

[brabus]

I can easily vote illegally in two states based on first hand experience - so I’m sure sorting through that shitshow takes egregious amount of time. If we had solid voting ID requirements and continuous, stringent voter roll QC in place in 50 states, this delayed timeline wouldn’t be a thing.