Read the opinion pieces from two different sources on the same topic.Source 1: The process is drastically different in a minority of states, including key election battlegrounds such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. In those states, election workers are, with few exceptions, prohibited from opening mail ballots before Election Day. Election officials in these states have begged their state legislatures for increased flexibility over the past few years and have been repeatedly rebuffed, including by many legislators who criticized slow counting in 2020 or backed claims that the vote count showed evidence of fraud. Only in Michigan did some cities successfully convince their legislature to allow any processing before Election Day. But even in those rare cases, the time permitted is far less than election officials asked for (just two days before Election Day), and the change came too late for many cities to implement it by the 2022 election.–Brennan Center for Justice,"Why Does It Take So Long to Count Mail Ballots in Key States? Blame Legislatures”Source 2: This year's election serves as an unfortunate reminder that many states are bizarrely moving in the opposite direction, toward chaos. Not only are they turning Election Day into "voting month," but some states are also dragging out the process of counting votes for weeks. There's no reason for this, at least no good one. Florida's example proves that you can receive 5 million mail ballots, plus a similar number of early votes, yet release accurate and almost complete results on election night. That must come as a shock to voting officials in Washington state and Oregon, which will release their results . . . well, sometime after Easter, probably.–Washington Examiner,"Learn from Florida – States Don’t Need Weeks to Count Votes”