Midterm Election Night 2018 And The Networks.....

We know how the networks compete to call an election for a particular candidate on election night. They work off of exit polls for predictions and then they hang on every report from the election counting people in each State to be the first network to call an election. Who wins and who loses.

I think something needs to happen so that we don't have that type of competition on Midterm Election Night. Instead there should be a one or two day period before any winner is announced in any of the races that night. This period would be used to make sure that all the votes are in and they were counted right. That there was no funny business going on to mess with the vote like Russian interference or any kind of hacking. Each race needs to be verified as being right and should be made official.

It seems to me that each candidate running in a race should not have a problem with agreeing to such a wait period and verification process to make sure that they weren't cheated out of a win.

It also seems to me that the Dem and Repug Parties shouldn't have a problem with agreeing to such a verification process as well. As who wins and who loses is important to them too.

I'm just worried that the Networks will not want to cooperate with such a system - because of the competition among the Networks to be the first to announce a winner and break the story.

I'm not sure if such a verification process can be put together at this late date and I'm not sure if this is even something that the Congress has to put into place.

I am concerned that this election might be the most important election ever in the U.S. and that the consequences should we not have such a verification process would be catastrophic to our democracy. We all know that once a winner is announced it is hard to reverse that situation should there be problems with the vote.

Any thoughts here?