Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin warned a legislative committee Friday that under the election plan the state was ordered to adopt by a federal judge it is unlikely we will know the full results of the November 3rd election until the next day.
The order calls for Louisiana to adopt the election plan used in the summer. Ardoin said that will likely mean a significant increase in absentee ballots.
“We may go a day later and that is problematic for us, it is problematic for candidates, I think the people of Louisiana are going to be a little concerned but I am asking for their patience and understanding,” said Ardoin. “We are in very strange times.”
The summer plan allowed people to request absentee ballots if they or someone in their household were high-risk COVID individuals, or if they were diagnosed with, or feeling symptoms of COVID-19.
Battleground states are moving to expansive absentee ballot programs, making it also unlikely we’ll know who the next President is November 3rd. Ardoin explains why.
“Every ballot is multiple pages of paper and so those have to be scanned and tabulated separately so it is a very large process,” said Ardoin.
Less than one percent of all voters in the summer elections utilized COVID-excuse absentee ballot forms.
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