Funny thing, one of my favorite odd jobs in college was being a vote counter for AP.<p>Most of the vote counters would need to call the election centers over the phone and ask for results. Then they would input the results into a database system, which would feed into the overall tabulation for different elections.<p>I was one of the college students they would look for because they needed college students better at technology to be able to check the websites of some jurisdictions. So I ended up being paid a few hundred dollars to copy and paste one number from a website and eat amazing catered Italian food. For about 2 minutes of work and amazing food it was a great gig.
To get this thread back on topic:<p>The article has this as part of their reasoning:<p>> That’s because the method a voter chooses often speaks to whom they voted for. Since the issue of voting by mail became highly politicized in the 2020 election, <i>most mail votes nationally have been cast by Democratic voters, while most in-person Election Day votes have been cast by Republicans</i>.<p>But this year R have focused on both early and mail-in ballots in a reversal of their traditional approach of eschewing or even attacking these voting options and it seems the general consensus is that for the 2024 elections as of last week, more Rs than Ds had actually opted for early and mail-in voting:<p>* <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/early-mail-in-voting-2024-election/" rel="nofollow">https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/early-m...</a><p>* <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/trump-republicans-early-voting.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/trump-republi...</a><p>It seems a curious thing for AP (which has published pieces on this new trend) not to at least mention a disclaimer at this point? It seems like an obvious “what would people attack us for?” answer.<p>Disclosure: not an R or a D myself.
Hold yourself when you hear that States are discussing a backdoor (edit: "workaround") on how they could trade Electoral College votes without amending the Constitution:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...</a><p>Like a super Faithless elector.<p>It's going to make it easier for the AP I guess ?
(unless plot twist: the States don't all keep their promises if they don't like the final result).