Mail-in Votes: States Must Process Them Earlier

There’s the morning after, and then there’s the morning after the morning after.

The presidential election was Tuesday, and as of mid-morning Thursday we did not know the result. Pennsylvania — long thought to be a potential tipping point in the Electoral College — still had more than 10 percent of its vote to count. This wasn’t a Florida-in-2000 kind of situation where the vote was close and disputed and a bunch of recounts were underway; Pennsylvania officials just hadn’t tallied all the ballots they’d known since the get-go they’d need to count.

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Robert VerBruggen

Robert VerBruggen is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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There’s the morning after, and then there’s the morning after the morning after.

The presidential election was Tuesday, and as of mid-morning Thursday we did not know the result. Pennsylvania — long thought to be a potential tipping point in the Electoral College — still had more than 10 percent of its vote to count. This wasn’t a Florida-in-2000 kind of situation where the vote was close and disputed and a bunch of recounts were underway; Pennsylvania officials just hadn’t tallied all the ballots they’d known since the get-go they’d need to count.