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States credit early preprocessing and standardized data for faster election-night reporting
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Ohio, Louisiana and other secretaries described preprocessing mail ballots, standardizing data, and election-day operations as key reasons they could report results quickly following the 2024 election.
WASHINGTON — State election officials told a House subcommittee that preprocessing absentee and early ballots, standard data definitions and robust election-day operations helped states report election-night results more quickly during the 2024 cycle.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose described a “ready for November task force” that trained county boards and recruited more than 35,000 poll workers. He said absentee ballots were opened and signature-checked by bipartisan teams as they arrived, flattened and scanned so the “very first ballots counted” on…
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