Arizona could wait a week to learn who its next U.S. senator will be

[Mosby]

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona voters may have to wait a week or more to learn whether their U.S. senator is Republican Martha McSally or Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, as some 600,000 ballots remained uncounted as of Wednesday afternoon.

With one out of every four ballots remaining to be counted, McSally led by about 15,000 votes, less than one percentage point. Neither candidate was ready to concede, though the outcome was unlikely to tip the balance of power in the U.S. Senate after Republicans flipped three seats in their favor, extending their majority.

The delayed result is a familiar feature of Arizona politics, when candidates can wait for days or weeks to learn final results.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-arizona-senate/arizona-could-wait-a-week-to-learn-who-its-next-u-s-senator-will-be-idUSKCN1NC354

[TreasonousBastard]

1. So, for those still insisting on hand-counted ballots...

this is how long it takes just to open the envelopes.

[ArizonaLib]

2. Still more accurate than the Diebold machines

The candidates who beat out incumbents still won't take office for months anyway.

It's not democracy if the votes aren't even counted accurately.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Diebold aren't the only machines.

[ArizonaLib]

6. Diebold machines were the first and initially most widely used

Diebold also makes the ATM machines the major banks use almost exclusively. How notorious are Diebold ATM machine hacking successes compared to how often Diebold voting machinery is hacked into? Why are they able to secure their ATM machines but not their voting machines? The answer: They can but refuse to. Those who defend the machines and disregard the extent of their inadequacy don't care enough about democracy to rely on their ideas about policy, but instead are eager to circumvent accurate and voting rights to win elections. Those individuals are morally bankrupt.

[JonLP24]

3. This is largely because of people walking in mail in ballots

On election day.

[Demit]

5. What's the hurry?