"Only" 4 days to go until Alaska finishes counting their votes. But that may still not be the end. If no candidate reaches 50% plus 1 vote, a new count will start, this time using ranked-choice tabulation and only after that we will have a final result.
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@andy Countries like Iceland and Brazil, who also have to deal with remote parts, manage to count far faster. Maybe Alaska should visit those places to learn how to become better ;)
@jwildeboer Alaska allows for up to 15 days post election for absentee ballots to arrive and questioned ballots to be cured. This favors inclusion of all voters and is pro-democratic. In cases where the election isn't this close that mostly doesn't matter and the outcome is clear before final certification.
But this one is real close, every vote counts and the state is allowing time to count all the votes.
I remain in favor of patiently counting all the votes.
@jwildeboer my state of Washington won't certify results until 21 days after the election, but our results were much clearer and you don't have to wait for certified results to know the outcome.
It's the nature of vote by mail systems.
@jwildeboer that runoff should be nearly instant though? You would presumably read all of the second choices when you scanned the ballots the first time.
Even if they have to reprocess the ballots it'll be faster than the first round because they have all the ballots. The slow part of the first count is waiting for delivery of all of the ballots from the (many) remote parts of the state to arrive by mail.