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Nov 9 2022 10:51pm
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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.


So crazy thing. They also publish the vote totals which give you exactly the information you want here.
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Nov 9 2022 10:53pm
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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?


you live in a shithole country that refuses to use modern technology for votes because you have a shit party who yells fraud at every possible moment

as a result there are delays while physical ballots are counted
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Nov 9 2022 10:53pm
Quote (Ghot @ Nov 9 2022 10:46pm)
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.


You can look at Georgia for an example. GA has a law that requires a candidate to win a majority of the cast votes (not just a plurality, but a 50% +1 majority). It's why they're going to a runoff in the Senate race, because no one got a majority. The number of registered voters has fuck all to do with it.

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Nov 9 2022 10:55pm
Quote (18nomaUSEast @ Nov 9 2022 11:51pm)
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


Would be funny, IMO, if in this instance (with cali showing 45% reporting) if all of a sudden 10m votes showed up, and there was a 2 mil swing. Not that i care for EITHER party. I think the entire government is actually working against the people who vote for them.
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Nov 9 2022 10:56pm
Quote (Light_Prince @ 9 Nov 2022 23:55)
Would be funny, IMO, if in this instance (with cali showing 45% reporting) if all of a sudden 10m votes showed up, and there was a 2 mil swing. Not that i care for EITHER party. I think the entire government is actually working against the people who vote for them.


american politics, having only two parties and a very party over country mindset, makes this very unlikely

but it's possible in the sense that the possibility exists
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Nov 9 2022 10:57pm
Quote (18nomaUSEast @ Nov 9 2022 11:53pm)
you live in a shithole country that refuses to use modern technology for votes because you have a shit party who yells fraud at every possible moment

as a result there are delays while physical ballots are counted




No, they may take... paper ballots, but they "report" with computers. Yet, as I said, 24 hours later there's only 45% reported.


I'll be 66 on Friday. When I was young, I don't remember it taking more than 24 hours to announce a winner... in any election.
Yet now, with modern technology, it takes days(plural), if not longer.
How is this possible?

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Nov 9 2022 11:00pm
Quote (Ghot @ 9 Nov 2022 23:57)
No, they make take... paper ballots, but they "report" with computers. Yet, as I said, 24 hours later there's only 45% reported.


I'll be 66 on Friday. When I was young, I don't remember it taking more than 24 hours to announce a winner... in any election.
Yet now, with modern technology, it takes days(plural), if not longer.
How is this possible?


pssssst

when you were younger they were calling races before 100% count, you just had less exposure to media and the making of the sausage
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Nov 9 2022 11:00pm
Quote (Ghot @ Nov 9 2022 08:57pm)
No, they make take... paper ballots, but they "report" with computers. Yet, as I said, 24 hours later there's only 45% reported.


I'll be 66 on Friday. When I was young, I don't remember it taking more than 24 hours to announce a winner... in any election.
Yet now, with modern technology, it takes days(plural), if not longer.
How is this possible?


Elections have smaller margins now requiring more granularity in votes tallied by precinct. Those winner declarations have always been media forecasts based on projected final votes.

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Nov 9 2022 11:01pm
Quote (18nomaUSEast @ Nov 10 2022 12:00am)
pssssst

when you were younger they were calling races before 100% count, you just had less exposure to media and the making of the sausage





LOL, I'm only 66... we had television and radio, my entire childhood.

There was ONE incident, that made the history books. The presidential election where the papers said Truman lost, and that made the papers. with the president, Truman, holding a paper saying he lost.
But that was before my time.

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Nov 9 2022 11:02pm
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LOL, I'm only 66... we had television and radio, my entire childhood.

There was ONE incident, that made the history books. The presidential election where the papers said Truman lost.




did you use your TV to f5 on google "midterm results" 24/7 back then? or did you watch what the news served you, between commercials and regularly scheduled programming?

GWB election was a shitshow as well, a mere 22 years ago

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