2022 Midterms: Our Mail-In Mess

Florida, Texas, and other states were able to count all but a handful of votes by midnight of Election Day. How is it that some states, including Arizona and Nevada, with much smaller populations, have become so much slower at counting votes in the era of Amazon, when everything else is delivered faster and better?

Maricopa County, Ariz., which includes Phoenix, claims it will need until at least Tuesday — a week after the election — to process uncounted ballots. In Nevada, more than 100,000 uncounted ballots, many dropped off by partisan “ballot harvesters” on Election Day, left the country in suspense for days over control of the U.S. Senate.

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Florida, Texas, and other states were able to count all but a handful of votes by midnight of Election Day. How is it that some states, including Arizona and Nevada, with much smaller populations, have become so much slower at counting votes in the era of Amazon, when everything else is delivered faster and better?

Maricopa County, Ariz., which includes Phoenix, claims it will need until at least Tuesday — a week after the election — to process uncounted ballots. In Nevada, more than 100,000 uncounted ballots, many dropped off by partisan “ballot harvesters” on Election Day, left the country in suspense for days over control of the U.S. Senate.