Keeping voters in suspense while officials take days to announce outcomes rightfully breeds distrust in the electoral process.
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Election chiefs from three important swing states recently went on cable news to make excuses about why they won’t have the election results on Election Day — even though this has been the norm in America for decades and is still the norm in many much larger states.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was asked Sunday on CBS News’ Face The Nation how “quickly” she expects to get the results, and she responded, in part, by saying: “I would estimate, end of the day on Wednesday [November 6], as the best guess on how we’ll perform.”
