• Local officials can now begin to process absentee ballots up to 2 weeks before the election.
  • Local officials are required to report the total number of early, absentee, and provisional ballots by 10 pm on election night. In other words, we will know how many votes are “out there” still to be counted on election day by 10pm.
  • Counties must finish tabulating votes by 5 pm of the day after the election.
  • Out of precinct provisional ballots won’t count unless they are cast after 5pm (meaning the VOTER did not have time to make it to their correct precinct in time). According to FairFight, there were 11,120 provisional ballots and 6,446 democratic provisional ballots were voted out of precinct in 2020.