Anthony Zurcher

You know, I mean, it's the way the system is set up.

If you mail a ballot and it's postmarked on Election Day, then it can be counted.

And a lot of people vote by mail in California.

And then there is a system in place to verify all of these ballots.

So there's a lengthy process to making sure that the ballots are legal, that this is the only ballot that this voter has been cast.

Each ballot has a barcode.

It's tracked like a

like a FedEx package.

So it has a unique identity.

And so it takes a while in a state with tens of millions of people.

It takes a while to just get through it.

Now, you could just not have mail-in voting.

A lot of states don't have that kind of system.

Florida has early voting, but it doesn't really have

mail voting the same way where you can do things on election day and turn around quickly.

But if you're going to make the rule that if you pop a ballot into the post on the election day, then you do have to wait a while for all of these things to trickle through the system.

But as you say, it does open it up to allegations of mischief, particularly when Republicans tend to vote on election day and a lot more Democrats vote by mail.

Yeah, the next election where Donald Trump doesn't say that there was fraud and that he got more votes or Republicans got more votes than were actually counted will be the first.

He does this all the time.

He did this when he lost Iowa.