There should be no lame-duck session, and the new Congress should be sworn-in immediately upon certification (which itself should be completed no later than one week after election day). This is how sane countries do it.
My wife's home country (which is larger than any individual state) counted the votes in a nationwide election earlier this year in two hours. It's ridiculous that some races take weeks to call here.
Since it's hot button stuff here, do they require voter ID and do they have absentee voting?
Yes and no respectively.
I suspected as much. Now if only our country could be so efficient. I would say the military should be able to vote absentee though.
What we
do have, though, is one polling place per 100-200 people instead of one per several thousand, all fully staffed with election workers capable to hand-count their ballots by election night. You can talk about abolishing absentee voting when you have that.
And of course voter ID is totally fine... if it's automatically issued to every voter when they become eligible, as we do here.
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