Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter hasn’t stopped the social media platform from advancing left-wing political agitprop. Over the past few days, Twitter users were greeted with messages about the upcoming election. In what can only be described as propaganda, it advised people that voting by mail is “safe and secure” while also warning users not to expect election results in a timely manner.
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“It takes time to count all of the votes,” Twitter’s welcome message read in big, bolded letters yesterday when users logged on. Then, there was an explanation provided underneath the message.
“It’s expected to take multiple days to count the votes, so the projected winners of some elections might not be announced yet,” it read. “This means you could encounter unconfirmed claims that a candidate has won their race.”
Twitter is trying to brainwash people to think it’s normal to have long delays in counting votes. But it’s not. The states had counted votes efficiently decades before; in the 21st century, with more technology available than ever, some of them regressed.
Other countries don’t seem to have such issues in their elections. In the French presidential election on April 24, 2022, Emmanuel Macron won his reelection bid against Marine Le Pen. The French cast over 31 million votes, and it didn’t take “multiple days” to count all the votes in France.
Moreover, these 31 million votes came two weeks after the French presidential election’s first round, in which there were over 35 million votes and 12 candidates. In both instances, the ballots were tallied on the night of the election.
Another example was Germany. On Sep. 26, 2021, nearly 47 million people voted in Germany’s federal election. The country voted on the successor of longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel after she served for 16 years. Yet these votes were counted the night of the election; results were made available without notable delays.
But, we are to believe the U.S. can no longer count votes in a single night? And a social media platform has taken it upon itself to advance such notices?
It doesn’t make sense, and there’s no legitimate reason for such delays. These are choices that certain states made to extend Election Day into a monthslong ordeal in which nearly any ballot can be counted even if it is received several days after the race is over. Some of the states’ vote-by-mail processes are to blame.
For example, in California, while all ballots being mailed must be postmarked on or before Nov. 8, the law states that ballots can be received by county elections offices up until seven days after Election Day. In Washington state, ballots must be postmarked by “no later than Election Day or returned to a ballot drop box by 8 p.m. on Election Day.” It doesn’t appear to specify on the state’s website how many days after the election a ballot can be received to be counted by election officials. In both instances, it contributes to delays in counting.
Something doesn’t add up, and it should raise red flags. An inability to count all the votes the night of the election will only cause more questions about voter integrity, create more political division, and further damage the credibility of our election process.
