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Voters in Alabama knew the outcomes of their Tuesday night elections hours before officials in D.C. began releasing results despite both jurisdictions officially closing their polls at the same time.<\/p>\n

Both D.C. and Alabama were scheduled to officially close their polling stations at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday night. Alabama counted the vast majority of its votes within about an hour, with the Associated Press<\/a> calling them at 8:40 p.m.<\/a> and 9:31 p.m.<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n

Officials in D.C., meanwhile, only began counting votes at 10:47 p.m.<\/a>, around the time the Associated Press declared Rep. Barry Moore the winner of Alabama\u2019s GOP primary<\/a> \u2013 the most hotly contested race in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Democratic-led jurisdictions including California<\/a> and Washington, D.C., have faced criticism from Republicans and election-integrity advocates who argue that prolonged ballot counting undermines public confidence and leaves major races unresolved for days or even weeks after Election Day. Election officials in those jurisdictions have defended the timelines, pointing to mail-in ballot rules, postmark deadlines and verification requirements they say are necessary to ensure every lawful vote is counted.<\/p>\n

CALIFORNIA\u2019S SLUGGISH VOTE COUNTING RIPPED ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM: ‘EXTREMELY EMBARRASSING’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

D.C.\u2019s first results were delayed after long lines kept some polling places open past the scheduled 8 p.m. close. Long lines at some D.C. polling stations forced the district to wait almost three hours after polls officially closed to start the counting process.<\/p>\n

Further delaying the count was the large number of mail ballots and the district\u2019s move to ranked-choice voting<\/a>, an election method that can require multiple rounds of counting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NYC POLLS ARE CLOSED BUT RACE FAR FROM OVER DUE TO RANKED-CHOICE VOTING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“When you get [20,000 to] 30,000 ballots on election night through the mail, it is not possible to process that number on election night,” D.C. Board of Elections executive director Monica Evans told a local media outlet on June 9.<\/p>\n

As of publishing, less than 70% of ballots have been counted in D.C. more than a day after voting began. Roughly 400,000 people voted in Alabama\u2019s Tuesday elections, compared to only around 100,000 ballots cast in D.C. that same night.<\/p>\n

DEMS PICK POTENTIAL SUCCESSOR TO DC’S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE AFTER DECADES-LONG INCUMBENCY<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

D.C.\u2019s pace of vote counting drew criticism on social media.<\/p>\n

“It’s now 10:30 pm, polls were supposed to close 2.5 hours ago, this is an absolute disaster from DCBOE,” DMV New Liberals, a local group of centrist Democrats, wrote to X on Tuesday night in response to news that the city hadn\u2019t begun counting votes yet.<\/p>\n

“In the District of Columbia<\/a>, just 64% of votes from yesterday’s election have been counted. And there aren’t even that many of them,” conservative pundit Byron York wrote at 11:19 a.m. on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The D.C. Board of Elections did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/deep-red-state-wrapped-race-calls-before-dc-started-counting-despite-same-poll-deadline <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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