Election experts raise fresh alarms about vote counting delays - and chaos - in battleground states

[Dulcinea]

(CNN) In Pennsylvania, officials are bracing for another presidential election in which the state could once again be the decisive battleground and take days to determine the winner.

Seth Bluestein, a Republican city commissioner in vote-rich Philadelphia, put the odds of knowing the winner on election night at “almost zero.”

In battleground Wisconsin, meanwhile, a final tally isn’t likely until the morning after the election, said Ann Jacobs, a Democrat who chairs the state’s election commission.

While several other states have moved to speed up the vote count in the four years since 2020’s post-election chaos, political gridlock in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin has prevented a change that could have paved the way for earlier projections: the ability to begin opening and processing mail-in ballots before Election Day.

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[Freddie]

1. "Political gridlock" Republicans

Who have refused to change the law regarding processing and counting mail-in votes in PA, a holdover from the time when you needed a “reason” to vote by mail. Their attempt at compromise was to remove the drop boxes so we’d depend on the ever-reliable USPS to send our ballots. No thank you.

[Think. Again.]

2. There should never be a rush to count, verify, and report election results...

...Congressional certification doesn't happen until Jan. 6.

Thete's absolutely no reason anyone has to know the final counts the night of the election, or even for a few days after Election day.