Senate Republicans push Election Day deadline for California's marathon ballot counts
FIRST ON FOX: A pair of Senate Republicans are bursting through a crack in the door left by the Supreme Court to force blue states like California to vastly cut down on how long it takes to count ballots.Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, are introducing legislation that would create a federal deadline for states to accept ballots received by the time polls close on Election Day across the country.Lankford pitched the bill, called the Ballots by Election Day Act, as a bid to build more trust in the country’s elections.TRUMP UNLOADS AFTER SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS LATE MAIL-IN BALLOTS IN MISSISSIPPI"I have made fun of other states for years because there's quite a few states around the country that can't seem to figure out how to be able to count," Lankford told Fox News Digital in an interview.
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FIRST ON FOX: A pair of Senate Republicans are bursting through a crack in the door left by the Supreme Court to force blue states like California to vastly cut down on how long it takes to count ballots.Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, are introducing legislation that would create a federal deadline for states to accept ballots received by the time polls close on Election Day across the country.Lankford pitched the bill, called the Ballots by Election Day Act, as a bid to build more trust in the country’s elections.TRUMP UNLOADS AFTER SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS LATE MAIL-IN BALLOTS IN MISSISSIPPI"I have made fun of other states for years because there's quite a few states around the country that can't seem to figure out how to be able to count," Lankford told Fox News Digital in an interview. "In Oklahoma, our election ends at 7 p.m. on a Tuesday night.""Usually by 9 p.m., all of our thousands of precincts are all in and counted," he continued.
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- FIRST ON FOX: A pair of Senate Republicans are bursting through a crack in the door left by the Supreme Court to force blue states like California to vastly cut down on how long it takes to count ballots.Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, are introducing legislation that would create a federal deadline for states to accept ballots received by the time polls close on Election Day across the country.Lankford pitched the bill, called the Ballots by Election Day Act, as a bid to build more trust in the country’s elections.TRUMP UNLOADS AFTER SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS LATE MAIL-IN BALLOTS IN MISSISSIPPI"I have made fun of other states for years because there's quite a few states around the country that can't seem to figure out how to be able to count," Lankford told Fox News Digital in an interview.
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