Not only is “defunding” off putting too many in the electorate, it’s also not necessarily even efficacious. I’m as liberal as they come and I’m all for increasing funding to make police pay competitive to draw in only the best and to greatly enhance training. “Defund the police” misses the point. It’s an awful slogan that doesn’t fix anything and only incites more division. It’s awful.
I believe they said these provisional ballots have until today to arrive and those would be counted. We will know how many of those they have to count by the end of today, and at most there would be 9,000