Arizona, Nevada disgraced the nation

While there is a diplomatic way of putting this, I won’t use that diplomatic approach to this important issue. Arizona and Nevada have disgraced the nation with their election procedures. It’s one thing to have early voting. It’s another to screw up the procedures so badly that you’re still processing ballots 4 days after Election Day.

Arizona and Nevada have a total population of 10,520,000 people. By comparison, Florida’s population is 22,000,000. It took Florida until midnight of Election Night to process all of their ballots, including their mail-in and early ballots. We’ll have to suffer through at least 2-3 more days to find out Arizona’s election results.

What’s worst is that Nevada’s election system isn’t secure. Victor Joecks, a reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports “For the past two elections, Nevada sent mail ballots to all registered voters, unless they opted out. That means around 1.8 million ballots went out. Well more than 1 million won’t be returned. Previously, a voter could request an absentee ballot for any reason.”