Posted: 11/7/2016 8:28:53 AM EDT
| ok so the election results come in Tuesday the 8th, if some people and even entire states don't vote until then how could they possibly count all the ballots in less then a day? |
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Every county conducts its own elections. Only 33% or so of the population votes in a presidential election. Even for the presidential election, that works out to 40,400 votes per county. Most counties have way fewer votes than that to count. They count all day, as the votes come in. They don't wait until polls to close to start counting. Voting machines have been around since the 1880s.
Even doing it totally manually with hand counters and such, it would only take a crew of 20 or so to finish counting 40,000 votes within a few hours of polls closing. It's usually good to take a minute to think and a few minutes to research before drawing conclusions. |
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ok so the ballot is like a scan tron and they have enough people to run millions of them through machines the day of? You run it through the machine for them, at least everywhere I've ever voted with a scanned ballot. So, yes, in a presidential election they "have" a hundred million or so people to run the ballots through the machine. |
