Former GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist: Count all the votes!

[Tanuki]

https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2020/11/04/2020-election-we-must-count-every-vote-no-matter-how-long-it-takes/6164180002/

....."President Trump recently said, “It would be very, very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on Nov. 3, instead of counting ballots for two weeks, which is totally inappropriate and I don't believe that that's by our laws.”

This could not be further from the truth. There is nothing inappropriate about taking the time to count all votes legally cast, nor is there anything in our electoral laws that requires a winner to be declared on Election Day.  And I want to emphasize that voting by mail is safe and secure.

Let’s look at history and precedent:

The Constitution guarantees the right to vote, not the right to a quick outcome. The Constitution does not mandate the timing of election results nor the manner in which votes are cast (indeed votes were often cast by voice in the 19th century), though its amendments stipulate that voting rights cannot be denied based on race, sex, or past condition of servitude.  
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Elections aren’t always determined on Election Day. While voters today have grown accustomed to learning the winner of an election within hours of polls closing, we only have to look back to the 2000 presidential election to remember that it wasn’t until December 12th, after recounting Florida ballots and a Supreme Court ruling, that we knew the outcome. 
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We have a long, successful history of using mail-in ballots. While it’s projected that as much as 50% or more of all 2020 votes will be cast by absentee ballot, a record to be sure, mail-in ballots have been widely and successfully used in past elections. In the 2016 presidential election, for example, nearly 1 in 4 ballots were cast by mail, including 633,592 absentee ballots cast by members of our military stationed overseas and Americans living abroad.

We owe it to the American people to get this right. "...(more)

[BusyBeingBest]

1. Frist TV-diagnosed the Orange Ass as "that boy ain't right".

[crickets]

2. K&R for visibility.