Florida Efficiency
Posted by saul_soprano@reddit | Libertarian | View on Reddit | 7 comments
I just wanna say... Florida has the least government funding per-capita of any state and is already over 70% in, while the second closest is Kentucky at 30% after almost 2 hours. Florida has been counting for half of that. More government is less efficient.
jdhutch80@reddit
After the mess that was 2000, Florida (led by Jeb Bush) really leaned into fixing the voting system. The good news is other states can take advantage of the lessons Florida learned without having to expend the time or money that the Sunshine State did.
kyky12121@reddit
I was also amazed by how fast Florida, the 3rd most populated U.S. state, processed their votes.
tleaf28@reddit
Florida allows local election boards to count ballots as they come in so all the mail in and early votes have already been counted.
Waiting until polls close to count all the votes is just plain government stupidity.
fap_nap_fap@reddit
That is nuts, I’ve never thought about it before but I really can’t believe they don’t “count as they go” so to speak.
RocksCanOnlyWait@reddit
Counterpoint: the reason mail-in ballots are not opened until election day is to avoid influencing behavior prior to the election. If the early and mail-in vote totals are known prior to election day, someone will inevitably leak the data. That can be used to influence those who haven't yet voted (usually by persuading them to vote or not vote at all), or can be used by malicious actors to determine which races to target with ballot harvesting.
No solution is ideal; just trade-offs
HODL_monk@reddit
You could just do all of this by computer. It should take about 4 seconds to count every ballot in America, if this were about efficiency, and not political gamesmanship. We can already do money safely with the internet using Bitcoin, but for some reason we have to go to a special physical location to use other computers to do voting, computers that sit idle 99% of their lives. There is no reason we can't just vote with our personal computers, public/private key encryption has been a thing since internet commerce took off, and there is no reason voting couldn't be done online...
JonnyDoeDoe@reddit
Delays are only necessary for adding additional ballots to the mix...