Sean Davis

So I'll say two things.

The first is I'm 100% with you and Sean on the fact that we need to get back to a situation where election day, as the name goes, is a day, not an election week, not an election month, not an election season, where...

You know, there used to be this thing we did where we went to the ballot box on that day.

For the most part, there were exceptions.

I realized mail-in was a thing.

But for the most part, most people voted on Election Day and the outcome was known by that evening.

Remember that?

It's also the norm across the developed world.

Just recently, Britain had local elections.

Everything was known by the end of the day.

So this whole like...

multiple means of drop boxes and expanded mail categories, especially much of it is left over from COVID, for example, in a crucial purple state like Pennsylvania, infuriates me and I think creates this sense of distrust we all have where it's like the polls are going one way and then, oh, conveniently ballots start popping up.

However, here's just one thing I would add to that, which is we are in a context in which

See, the president, the Republican president is historically unpopular.

He's plumbing depths of unpopularity that are unprecedented nationally and everything is nationalized so that and you're talking about Los Angeles, the city, and you're talking about California, the state, which are overwhelmingly blue places.

So I'm not you know, look, I'm willing to speak.

I don't think I'm as skeptical of what the results are showing so far as you guys are.

But the fact that even the question is being raised is a testament to why we need to stop this whole prolonged election season, election day, election night results.

You know, I remember doing 2020 was like I did tweet something and like Media Matters picked it up because I guess it was wrong thought at the time.

But I was like because I went to bed and Trump was ahead in Georgia.