Yeah, don't thin k about what I'm saying... just keep typing. LOL

No wonder states keep coming up with... look we found more votes.

This post was edited by Ghot on Nov 9 2022 10:37pm

Wait though, so you thought we've had nearly 100% voter turnout in america for however many years you've been alive? And you never questioned that?

Of course not.


What I thought is what I'm telling you I thought. That the percentages were based on total registered voters.

Right, so you thought 100% of registered voters were voting in every single election? Or like, when they report that first number for a presidental county from that shitty little town in NH of 20 people, you thought that 60%/40% was every single registered voter in new hampshire? Like it never occurred to you that the numbers never add up to anything except 100?

This post was edited by Sioux on Nov 9 2022 10:40pm

FFS, Minnesota ranks at or near the top of the country in voter turnout rates, and we had just a hair under 80% turnout in 2020.

Imagine if all of the near 40m people in that state actually voted.

Also, legit question: Why does it say theres a winner with only 45% reporting?

If the percent was calculated on total registered voters a candidates percent couldn't... drop.
Because the total registered voters would be a fixed number in any given election.

I honestly thought that's the way they worked it. I really can't see the "sense" in doing it based on the total votes.
I mean... after the fact, for the statistics books... sure, but not "during" an election.

They analyze trends from a number of factors, including registered voters by party affiliation, exit polls, where votes are being counted from (which parts of the state), and historical voting data, they can extrapolate a projected winner based on that analysis and where uncounted votes are likely to go.

It's also why CO-3 hadn't been called when Fritsch had a lead of several thousand votes, because uncounted votes were in areas that trend Republican.

complicated math involving trends allows races to be called long before 100% of the vote is counted

these early calls can of course be wrong

but on election night there's a race by the news media to be the first to "call" races to increase impressions

I don't understand that at all.
We live in the computer age.... even ma and pa kettle have computers.
Yet 24 hours after the election... there's only 45% reporting. How is that possible? What are the using to collect votes, three legged donkeys?