You must count early if you have early voting and then after the election closes publish the daily totals for each day, so Florida is doing that right.
This way a concerned citizen could vote early, stick around the poll and oversee it's run fairly, and watch the daily counting after. This is the only way people can ensure the vote is counted correctly other than sleeping outside the vault (ha ha) padlocked closet containing the uncounted votes. In fact the parties and media will ensure there's people there overseeing the counts so they get early indicators and that the counts aren't changed later.
Otherwise the number of early votes is a lower bound on cheating - nobody can know whether they are real votes or not so they might as well be cheated votes.
Of course the implication of this is don't have early voting so the media can't have a daily running count that influences later voters. Maybe call it an election "day".
You must count early if you have early voting and then after the election closes publish the daily totals for each day, so Florida is doing that right.
This way a concerned citizen could vote early, stick around the poll and oversee it's run fairly, and watch the daily counting after. This is the only way people can ensure the vote is counted correctly other than sleeping outside the
vault(ha ha) padlocked closet containing the uncounted votes. In fact the parties and media will ensure there's people there overseeing the counts so they get early indicators and that the counts aren't changed later.Otherwise the number of early votes is a lower bound on cheating - nobody can know whether they are real votes or not so they might as well be cheated votes.
Of course the implication of this is don't have early voting so the media can't have a daily running count that influences later voters. Maybe call it an election "day".