It’s finally over. As we’ve been reporting, the last of the ballots from the Nov 5th election have been counted, four weeks after the election. And voting by mail and early drop-off voting started almost a month before that.
Some people complain that it shouldn’t take four weeks to count all the ballots, but with the Registrar’s office having to verify thousands of signatures and go through thousands of provisional ballots, it’s not something that can happen quickly.
And when it comes to elections, and when to comes to some races locally coming down to as few as a couple of hundred votes difference between winners and losers, among thousands of votes, it’s a good idea to make sure they check, double check and get it all right.
And frankly. the amazing thing is that despite over 1.5 million ballots cast and now counted, the people who work at the Registrar of Voters office do get it right.
And all voters should be thankful that those workers work hard and do the tedious work it takes to make sure that the results are accurate, despite, as we saw during the election process, getting bomb threats and sometimes nasty phone calls.
The 75.8 percent of eligible voters who voted in the election should be grateful. As for the 25 percent of eligible voters who didn’t vote, the question for them should be why not?
(Photo San Diego County News Center)