Ouch. I didn't say I know everything or that its easy. Change sometimes is hard. To clarify this is the most important election that takes place in the world. Period. It is an incredible responsibility to do this job right. In North Carolina we have a lot of early in person voting and mail in voting.They are allowed to open, scan and tabulate the votes before election day. Mich.,Wisc.,and Pa. along with 20 other states do not do that . This causes the delays in releasing the results. Election officials in those states have begged the legislatures to change this.There state lawmakers could easily change this but they refuse to.Half of the states allow workers to open mail in ballots and scan and tabulate them . In NC I would say 85 percent of the voting is done 3 days before election day. Do we do it perfect ?No. So we only have to count 15 percent of the vote on election day.. We have 10.7 million people . the 9th largest state.