Thread by @jseldin

#Election2020 - “Accurate results are, as always, more important than fast results” per @EACgov Commissioner/Vice Chair Don Palmer “So there may be discrepancies that need to be identified right after election night & addressed…”

“Hopefully we’ll know the outcome on election night but its quite possible that we might not" per @EACgov's Christy McCormick

"That is just a slower process" @NMSecOfState Maggie Toulouse Oliver cautions on counting mail-in ballots during @EACgov roundtable on #Election2020

"Your election officials are always continuing to work thru days & weeks after Election day"

"All of us are trying to preach patience" per @StanfordLaw's @persily "We think that everyone should be in a mindset where they will not know who the winner of the presidential election is on Election Night, as we have historically"

#Election2020

"Elections are getting tighter & tighter victory margins"
per @IowaSOS Paul Pate "That makes the pressure on us, to make sure we're accurate as we come out of the chutes with our results"

"I don't plan on being up til the wee hours of the morning Election Night myself" per @IowaSOS "I'm confident we're going to have our numbers in"

"Some of my colleagues in other states they've got a steeper hill to climb...we've got to be patient"

#NewMexico won't be counting ballots all night Nov. 3

"We are saying that the process of counting ballots is going to draw to a close at 11:30 on Election Night" per @NMSOSMaggie, wanting to eliminate possibility of errors due to exhaustion

Counting will resume the next morning

#Election2020 #misinformation #disinformation worries

"Right now, we face things like people posting misinformation out there about long lines at polling sites" per @IowaSOS

"The one that concerns me is we're seeing a lot of this stuff going out there about planting the seed that there is going to be civil unrest at the polling sites this election cycle" per @IowaSOS

"That makes me uncomfortable..."

#Election2020 civil unrest? Some of the tallk could be #disinformation

"I don't want to sit here and say it can't happen but by planting that out there, now you create another problem that isn't really there" per @IowaSOS "We need to be staying ahead of that"

"We've got people in #Russia & #China & #Iran who are pushing this one just as aggressively as sometimes the candidates themselves can get out ahead of it and cause us some issues" per @IowaSOS re: talk of civil unrest