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Of COURSE ballots are counted after the polls close. How would you count votes before the polls close? Orangina stated that he didnt want any ballots counted after the polls close. Does anyone listen or care anymore? About anything?
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)time then if they are counted by the time polls close we just throw them away. That is stupid.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)to be counted because they were largely mail-in and absentee. There are so many ballots, in theory, that have not been counted.
I still am struggling to understand how we seemed to give up so quickly on some of these states.
progree
(10,918 posts)until the polls close.
In MN in early voting, we fed our ballots into the machine, and that went to a computer file somewhere. It just wasn't all added up and revealed (or if it was added up, that was encrypted to the nth degree so that a human wouldn't be able to see it and lead it, I'm just guessing in all of this), but a computer can do the addition in milliseconds.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)progree
(10,918 posts)meaning the data then goes to a computer file and a computer can easily access and add things up.
I'm aware that some states don't even open the envelopes until election day, and then they have to check that its properly filled out and signatures match and so on, and then run it through the tabulator and that all takes time.
malaise
(269,157 posts)for all my generations who live there
Solomon
(12,319 posts)December after all the votes are counted. Every election.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Im reading all my bookmarked threads....landslide, dont be worried, hell be humiliated, hes done, blue wave....
Not real happy this morning.