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In reply to the discussion: Biden's Voters Appear Far More Likely To Vote By Mail Than Trump's FiveThirtyEight [View all]qazplm135
(7,447 posts)more has to happen than just "counting them"
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893115504/swing-county-u-s-a-prepares-for-unprecedented-influx-of-ballots-by-mail
It's a timely, and multi-step process where counting is the LAST step, and yes, that step is no slower than counting same day ballots, but it's longer, and when they anticipate as in this article FIFTEEN times as many mail in ballots, you can anticipate that it probably will take 15 times as long to count them.
You are operating under the old, just a few percent of early vote, where yeah, they could rattle through them quickly and get them out even before election day voting.
The people who do this for a living are telling you, that's not likely to be the case this time UNLESS the rules change to allow them to count before election day.