Good piece from @jimgeraghty: Why Absentee Ballots Arriving after Election Day Represent a Vote-Counting Problem nationalreview.com/corner/why-abs…
"When the polls close, we want election workers to know precisely how many legitimate ballots exist in a voting “universe.” They don’t need to immediately know who won, but they need to know there are, say, 12,345 votes that have been legitimately cast in their jurisdiction."
"This makes it much easier to catch accidental over or under-counts. If, after counting all the votes (and any blank ballots), if the sum comes up to 12,352, they know a few ballots were counted twice. If the sum comes up to 12,335, they know ten ballots didn’t get counted."
"If a state accepts absentee ballots that arrive later in the week, vote-counters don’t know what their total “voting universe” is, and they’re forced to check their work against a moving target...This doesn’t make an accurate count impossible, but it makes it more difficult."
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