Early Counting VERY Rare
Iowa blogger desmoinesdem has pointed out that only two other states allow absentee ballots to be counted before election day.
The price we pay for faster results in close races will be this: wondering if insider knowledge of the Monday count was used to flip the close race.
Pretty ironic! This whole bill is supposed to relieve the anxiety of waiting for close races that get decided by the absentee count. Instead it will provoke a new anxiety about whether the early count leaked out.