Voters have always been subject to changing their support based on new information about a candidate’s stances and conduct. Elections are essentially a popularity contest.
If a candidate a big enough mistake (say expressing that parent’s should not be able to influence the content of what their children are being taught in the school they pay for) public opinion (voter support) will swing away from them. Elections can be for a popular candidate, or for anyone but a specific candidate.
Voters display a change of heart after new information enters the election in one of 2 ways. Some will switch their support, others will be disheartened and just stay home rather than vote. A dedicated member of the party probably won’t switch sides, but they might stay home in disgust over the new information about their party’s candidate.
Zantax said: “You really should be able to change your vote as long as you do it by election day.”
The assumption being that the statement was about mail in votes, it may be possible for mail in votes in some states. For manually cast ballots, not so much.
In my state election officials start processing mail in ballots up to 7 days prior to election day. Once the initial security procedures are done the ballot may be separated from the inner security envelope for secure storage.
No doubt the dimocrats will cheat for a mcaulife “win”.
mcauliffe made it clear last night what the dimocrats objective here is. He said " we’re gonna put a stop to donald trump’s plans in 2022 and 2024 right here in Virginia."
He also invited the head of the national teacher’s union, randi winegarten in so they can claim after that “the voters have spoken, and they want crt taught in schools.”
And finally, once mcauliffe is declared the winner you’ll see a tremendous push by the lib media for the dimocrats to pass the biden agenda.
It’s all they’ve ever wanted. How can they pass this up?
The only reason that it “takes days or weeks” was because some states had antiquated laws that forbid them from processing absentee ballots until election day. Well on election day the manpower was needed to process in-person voting so absentee envelopes were processed late.
Virginia used to be one of those states, but the legislature changed the law so that security processing can now start 7-days before election. Once the security processing is done and the ballots prepped, the actual counting goes much quicker since it is just running them through the tabulation machines.
Agree, I always thought that laws restricting security processing of absentee ballots was kind of dumb. When handling absentee ballots the time consuming part is dealing with the security procedures for the outer envelopes. Once that is done they are stacked and run through tabulation machines just like other ballots for the most part.