November 10, 2022
Why is it taking them so long to count the votes in Arizona and Nevada?
Well, as I have told you in several videos since last week, every state has different rules for how and when votes can be counted. And let me just say, if you don’t live in Nevada or Arizona you really have no say in how those states conduct their elections. Each state gets to conduct elections in the way that state sees fit. And if you live in Nevada and Arizona and you don’t like how your state counts votes, then you need to vote to change it.
Now back to vote counting.
In Arizona, as of today — about two million ballots have already been counted but hundreds of thousands of ballots are still left to be counted. Look, Arizona’s Maricopa County is one of largest voting jurisdiction in the country – that means there’s a ton of voters in that state. Early voters can mail in or drop off their early ballots as late as on election day and still have them count. They call those the “late, earlies.” Late-earlies need to be signature verified, processed and counted. According to Maricopa County election officials 290,000 “late earlies” were dropped off on election day that’s 70% more than 2020. It’s the highest number in the county’s history. Then of course they have about 17,000 ballots that were cast on election day that were impacted by that printing error. Those ballots will be counted still.
Now, Nevada has an interesting rule. Nevada’s state law allows mail-in ballots to be received through Saturday, as long as they were postmarked by election day, meaning counties are still receiving ballots that are valid and need to be counted. In addition to waiting on those valid ballots till Saturday, Nevada had almost 50,000 early ballots that were dropped off on election day or mailed in with valid post marks just today.
Now here’s the thing – these counting laws are in the spotlight because it just so happens that both Arizona and Nevada have critical and very tight senate races. That’s why people are hyper focused on those states, but the fact is several other states are still counting votes including Alaska, Maine, California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, New York, Maryland and Montana.
