The slow vote-counting that marked 2020 election had serious consequences for American democracy, particularly enabling the “big lie“. But it seems this problem will persist. This article by Michael Wines is published by New York Times. Here is an excerpt:

What happens when Election Day lasts for weeks?

The short, glib answer to that question is that Jan. 6 happens — as we learned dramatically this week when Cassidy Hutchinson, a young former aide to Mark Meadows, gave testimony that put former President Donald Trump at the center of that day’s chaos and violence.

The somewhat longer answer is that there’s so much static over how votes should be counted that we’ve seen the same dysfunctional scene twice since 2020 in the same state.

First came the presidential election, where Trump seized on a slow vote count in Pennsylvania to cry fraud, declare victory and sow doubt about Joe Biden’s victory there and elsewhere.

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