(Fox News) White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was blasted Monday for saying that waiting a couple of days for results is how elections are “supposed to work.”
“We may not know all the winners of elections for a few days. It takes time to count all legitimate ballots in a legal and orderly manner,” Jean-Pierre told reporters at the White House press briefing. “That’s how this is supposed to work.”
Twitter exploded as commentators on the platform expressed their dismay that many states can no longer tally all the ballots they receive by the end of election day itself.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton warned, “Counting ballots after Election Day undermines voter confidence.”
Counting ballots after Election Day undermines voter confidence. https://t.co/fqjYuq1RTa
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) November 7, 2022
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre answers questions during the daily briefing at the White House on Sept. 1, 2022. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Hudson Institute senior fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs quipped, “Narrator: this is not, in fact, how it’s supposed to work.”
Commentator Rick DeVos slammed the announcement, appearing to say it was a bad attempt at assuaging concerns about the electoral process.
“This stuff is rapidly becoming like a 10 year old trying to use the ‘Jedi Mind Trick’ after seeing it in the movie. ‘That’s how this is supposed to work.’ ‘That’s HOW this is supposed to work.’ ‘That’s how this is SUPPOSED to work,’” he quipped. “Dad chuckles, smiles, pats kid on head.”
This stuff is rapidly becoming like a 10 year old trying to use the “Jedi Mind Trick” after seeing it in the movie.
“That’s how this is supposed to work.”
“That’s HOW this is supposed to work.”
“That’s how this is SUPPOSED to work.”Dad chuckles, smiles, pats kid on head https://t.co/KuI4YsDQD0
— Rick DeVos (@RickDeVos) November 7, 2022
The host of “The Situation with Michael Brown” and former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael D. Brown was one of many commentators who expressed skepticism that, despite improving technology, elections now somehow take longer to process.
“Not only is she just flat stupid, but think about this. When we counted paper ballots, or punched ballots (sans FL 2000) we knew the results almost always by midnight. Not two weeks. This insanity has to stop,” he said.
Commentator Andy Swan tweeted a similar sentiment, “It’s amazing that they were able to count all the ballots by hand on election night in the 1960s but can’t get it done with scantrons and computer inputs in 2022.”
