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Glenn Greenwald, the former co-founder of the Intercept and a widely renowned investigative reporter who broke the Edward Snowden leaks, has put the U.S. on full blast for its inability to properly count all ballots on election night.

"The richest and most powerful country on earth — whether due to ineptitude, choice or some combination of both — has no ability to perform the simple task of counting votes in a minimally efficient or confidence-inspiring manner," Greenwald said.

Indeed, Greenwald's point has merit as votes are continuing to be counted in key swing states including WI, MI, PA, and even GA. Yesterday evening it was reported that PA and GA would stop counting ballots for the night and resume this morning. It has also been said that final election results could take up to a week to determine.

This, of course, is Greenwald's point. How is it possible the richest and most technologically advanced country on earth is unable to properly count ballots within an acceptable time frame?

Greenwald draws an aside to the U.S. with Brazil, which managed to declare an electoral victor on election day with over 100 million votes. "And yet Brazil — a much poorer and less technologically advanced country than the U.S., with a much shorter history of democracy — holds seamless, quick vote counts about which very few people harbor doubts.," Greenwald said.

To add insult to injury, polling data propagated by major media outlets also proved to be woefully inaccurate in an embarrassingly big way. It was predicted that Biden would win the election by a landslide in some cases. Looking at the state of the election this morning and it appears that the pollsters were wrong again as they had been in 2016.

Even after a victor has been declared, Greenwald insists that Americans demand of their officials that their democracy works efficiently before trotting around the globe insisting that everyone else needs to adopt American democratic values.

What's the point of instilling global democracy when its world leader can't even properly count ballots?

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