[EL] "Overtime count"

[Pedro Hernandez]

RCV jurisdictions do release preliminary reports
<https://sfelections.sfgov.org/june-5-2018-election-results-detailed-reports>,
with not all votes counted. It’s been common practice in San Francisco that
RCV tabulations are released each day by 4pm. Here's a link to a press
release of the reporting schedule:
https://sfelections.sfgov.org/article/department-elections-announces-results-reporting-schedule-june-5-election
.


I’m a San Francisco voter, and the delay has everything to do with the
factors in Ned’s piece: generous Vote-By-Mail laws -- about half of SF
voters drop off their ballots on election day. Verifying, opening, and
processing those ballots, well, takes time. California also has E+3, where
ballots postmarked on election day and received by counties on Friday are
counted.


In any close election, regardless of the election system used, finality can
always be delayed due to overtime counting (ballot counting after election
day).

Pedro Hernandez
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Senior Policy Coordinator, Voting Rights & Ranked Choice Voting
http://fairvote.org


On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 8:25 PM Kogan, Vladimir <kogan.18 at osu.edu> wrote:

> Although Ned didn’t mention this in his piece, the “overtime count” issue
> will be particularly pronounced for jurisdictions using ranked-choice
> elections. Under RCV, there is no such thing as a partial count, since the
> late-return ballots could change which candidates are eliminated and in
> what order. You have to wait until all of the ballots to figure out who the
> top-two candidates are, and how many votes are redistributed to each.
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