(11-04-2020, 07:32 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(11-04-2020, 07:28 PM)mal234 Wrote: We did and from what I heard a lot of people showed up to it throughout the state. The early voting lines in the area where I live is usually pretty long. The place that is designated for early voting here usually is packed, it's one of the reasons why I don't really like to do early voting. It just looks like a lot of people did mail in this year as well.

I am just having a hard time understanding how a state like Florida with double the population of NC, with early voting in place was able to deliver their results on election night and NC needs 9 additional days.

Two reasons. In Florida, state law allows the supervisor to open ballots before election day. Also, Florida does not accept ballots received after 7PM on election day unless they are military ballots.  NC accepts other types of ballots as late as November 12th.  That's a state law they came up with a while ago.

These types of state laws have to be enacted at least 6 weeks prior to election day, per federal law

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(11-04-2020, 07:51 PM)jaglyn Wrote: I think it was after the 2000 debacle when we became a laughingstock, that FL made significant changes to the vote collection and counting process

Exactly.  We were one of the first states to go all optical scan, and early voting for everyone.  Jeb Bush and the people in power with him worked for that.  Can you imagine Republicans today trying to make government better like that? I can't. The Republican party needs to get back to that spirit.

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