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Nov 4, 2020 · 3:35 p.m. ET, November 4, 2020. Major counties in Georgia are still counting ballots. Here's where things stand. From CNN's Jason Morris. An election personnel examines a ballot as vote...
- Some Blue Big Cities Saw A Lagging Count on Election Night; Others Didn’T
- Big Cities Have More Ballots to Count, Because More People Live There
- Cities Have to Follow State Laws About Mail Ballot Receipt and Processing
- PolitiFact Ruling
Cruz has a point that some big cities saw slow counts in 2020. We confirmed this using the Wayback Machine internet archive. We checked archived snapshots of The New York Times’ election results page in key states and counties to see how many votes had been reported as counted by the early morning hours the day after the election, Nov. 4. We then c...
This may seem obvious, but it’s often lost in the debate over the pace of counts: No matter how many election workers you throw at the challenge, it’s going to take cities more time to count the votes, because there are simply more votes to count. Using Cruz’s Texas as an example, the state has 254 counties. Dozens of them were able to count their ...
It’s important to note that these populous cities operate under ballot-handling parameters set by their states. In some cases, those rules, which determine when election officials can start processing mail ballots, are set by Republicans in state-level offices. The rules vary greatly from state to state. In some states, opening up mail ballots can’...
Cruz said that only Democratic cities take "‘days’ to count their votes" while "the rest of the country manages to get it done on election night." He has a point that some cities — which, given today’s political environment, almost always lean Democratic — trailed their state’s pace in the vote counting in 2020. This included some pivotal, and clos...
Nov 5, 2020 · Only about 9,500 votes separate the two candidates at this juncture, with more than four million votes cast in Georgia. There's still some counting to be done, as you suggest, in the mid-40,000 range.
Nov 6, 2020 · From CNN’s Jason Morris and Chuck Johnston. At least three counties across Georgia have stopped counting ballots for the night, county officials told CNN Thursday evening. This includes,...
Nov 14, 2023 · After the 2020 presidential election, a hand count of all 5 million ballots cast confirmed that Biden defeated Trump by about 12,000 votes in Georgia. Concerns about Georgia’s election equipment ...
Jan 2, 2024 · In late November, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed 23 new election and democracy bills into law. In 2024, Votebeat will be watching to see how the new laws work during a presidential election. The new laws include a minimum of nine days of early in-person voting, pre-registration of 16-years-olds who become eligible to vote at age 18, and — in ...
Aug 17, 2023 · By Mark Niesse. Aug 17, 2023. Driven by deep doubts about Dominion voting machines, conservative election critics are seeking a rudimentary remedy in Georgia: counting ballots by hand.
