@moke123 I was speaking about Before/During the election not after the fact.
How many ballots were printed?
How many mail in ballots were requested?
How many were sent out?
How many were received back?
We know all these numbers the morning of the election but they are hidden and never revealed. And, we have no way short of an audit to match the numbers on the web sites you referenced after the fact. And since the Democrats think that audits are racist, they obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. Looks a little guilty to me. Why would you obstruct an audit that would show that your count was clean? Especially if the opps were paying for it. Wouldn't you want to sit back and chuckle?
Then we have the same day voting.
How many registered voters per precinct?
How many ballots sent to each precinct?
How many voters got checked off the list?
How many ballots were scanned?
How many ballots were unused/voided?
The ballots scanned is a count we have immediately but the other counts of how many voters signed in and how many ballots were unused/voided have to be reconciled when the polls close.
Additional numbers should be kept such as how many envelopes were received vs how many ballots were scanned for the mail in votes. Sometimes we get more envelopes than we get ballots scanned but it can never be the other way around.
This is basic accounting 101. Count everything as many ways as you can to ensure your counts are accurate. It is the sloppiness of the counting process that makes people question the results. Simple things like reconciling the number of envelopes received with the number of votes cast makes it much harder to dump illegal ballots into the mix in the dead of night which is a simple and obvious way to cheat once you know how many votes your side is down.
All the numbers that are known before election day should be posted before election day. The other counts are developed as voters vote in person and mail in ballots are opened and counted.
Some states count mail in ballots as they arrive. Others don't count until election day. I think they should be counted as they are received but the vote tallies can be secret until the polls open if that makes more sense. What can't happen is that you have 100,000 mail in ballots received and counted when the polls open and then later in the day "discover" additional ballots that were "misplaced". That's why the count of received ballots is so critical. If the ballot is not here when the polls open, it can't count. PERIOD.