" Tom, if you will check with other counties ALL the ballots ar not counted and the election is not certified on election night. Our election staff know their job and do it well. I would imagine in your job you have made mistakes as we all have. Are mistakes made, yes and rectified when found. Keep a positive attitude for this election. "

" Hear hear! In this day and age there is absolutely no excuse that we should have to wait several days for election results. "

" The paper absentee ballots can be recounted manually in an audit.

What are humorously called 'electronic ballot images' can not in all honesty be audited because you have to rely on the invisible innards of voting machines to 'audit' them.

Only the paper ballot totals are truly auditable for accuracy.

Now of course, people who like questionable elections like the situation just fine.

~Ruff "

" It is plain from the last 2 elections this year that our elections department will report a "statistical" result of some of our votes on November 5th.

A large number of our actual votes will still be uncounted when the election result is announced.

Then, when the Napa County elections dept gets around to finally counting the votes and certifies our election 2 or 3 weeks later - after the nation has selected our new president - we will know the actual outcome of our votes.

Ladies and gentlemen, vote early and often! "

" I am one of the 150 people who phoned John Tuteur after learning we could no longer go to a polling place to cast our vote. His explanations did nothign to pacify me and I am still extremely upset that in our great country I can no longer cast my vote in the way I choose. If I chose vote by mail that would be one thing but to be forced into it seems the antithesis of what our democratic society is about. If I am forced to vote by mail then the least John Tuteur should do is make sure all the votes are counted on election day. I agree that that getting the count right is the most important thing but since he forced us Napans to vote by mail then he should ensure our votes are counted on election day and not weeks afterward. Why even vote if your vote won't be counted for weeks? "

" Since they have closed so many polling places, surely they will have lots of volunteers who would otherwise be at the polling places that they could use to get the job done in a timely fashion. I would rather vote at the polling place, too. "

" Tom, you need to direct your complaints to the appropriate person, Democrat Sect'y of State Debbie Bowen. She is the one that arbitrarily decided to throw out all the approved electronic voting machines (with paper receipts). With those machines, the results WOULD be available on election day.... "

" Let's do like the Dem's. Vote early and OFTEN. Get the Illegals to vote as they and all the Dead people who get ballots always vote Democrat. You should have to be a LEGAL citizen to vote, Show I.D, have some basic smarts and actually PAY taxes to be allowed to vote. This is America not some third world country, YET!!! Maybe on Jan. 1 if Osamabama gets in.. "

" In Indiana an Acorn Democrat poll worker working after hours voted for people who registered to vote but didn't show up.

What are the odds that during the 2 weeks that the elections office takes to count votes - that some votes will be lost, changed or like in Indiana - made up. "