Over 80,000 people voted early in Nevada, but M$M only reporting about 6000 votes - why??

[iluvtennis]

What is the process? When will the 80000+ early votes be included in the totals? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

[LiberalFighter]

1. When they milk this?

[Iliyah]

2. 4% now?

Won't they count the early voting after the caucus count?

They have a ways to go huh.

[iluvtennis]

4. I just screenshoted those numbers from CNN about 5 minutes ago. nt

[George II]

3. The officials are reporting early votes added to today's votes, they're not reporting them before...

....the actual precincts report.

So if 500 voted early in precinct A once precinct A tallies their votes, the 500 will be included then. They don't want to report any votes "early", otherwise people will be whining that they're "leaking votes".

It's not a matter of the faux "M$M" not wanting to report anything.

[iluvtennis]

5. OK, thanks for that answer George II. I haven't seen the m$m report that. Thanks again. nt

[kozar]

17. exactly,

as a general rule,if you will, early votes are always reported last to avoid just this situation. Along same lines, if you are as old as me, that News channels stopped "declaring" before polls closed in general elections, back in the day.


Koz

[thesquanderer]

18. also "early" votes aren't fully KNOWN until after today's voting is tallied.

The early ballots include multiple ranked choices, which are finally allocated after it is determined who is viable in their precinct. So it is actually impossible to know where the early votes will align until after the real voting happens.

[CalFione]

6. why are you blaming the media?

the media doesn’t count the votes.


I am suspicious of someone who talks about the “M$M”. That phrasing is right wing.

[iluvtennis]

8. I'm a lifetime democrat. They are known as the mainstream media. I added the $ cuz it's abt money.

[CalFione]

9. The media has nothing to do with vote counting

Blaming them is irrational.

[iluvtennis]

11. 😂 I'm a left brained engineer and as logical as you'll find. Please don't throw shade my way. nt

[CalFione]

15. ok, good

Then don’t blame the media for something completely beyond their control.

[iluvtennis]

16. Please keep your comments pertinent to the discussion and not resort to personal attacks. nt

[PatSeg]

14. I think you misunderstood

The poster was asking a question about when they would report the early votes, not blaming the media. It was a question, not an accusation.

[ibegurpard]

7. Because it's a caucus

It's going to take a while. You may not even know tomorrow if stories about reporting lines being busy are true. Just going to have to be patient and ignore the media hair-on-fire reporting.

[iluvtennis]

10. Thank you. I like your advice. I'm going to turn off the tele now. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Ratings gurus huddle with sponsors to create dramatic see-saws

The drama must peak in the prime hour of most eyeballs so the denouement analysts can peak the next hour.

You think it's about politics. Ha.

[malchickiwick]

13. They're not votes; they are caucus preferences, and so they don't get "counted" ahead of today.

We met precinct by precinct; in my case there were 18 of us. Everyone indicated his or her preference, and then they counted the early caucus selections from our precinct, 51, and added them to the groups based on first choice. After counting up the selections, only Bernie, Liz, and Pete were viable, and so those present chose a second candidate, and the second choices of the early caucus-goers were tabulated.

So bottom line there is no early count. Early and live will all be counted together.

BTW: We divided our CCDs thusly: 3 for Bernie, 2 each for Liz and Pete.

[iluvtennis]

21. Thanks for the detailed insight on your process. nt

[Renew Deal]

19. Don't know about NV, but in a lot of states they are reported at the precinct level.

[stopbush]

20. All of the early preferences need to go to the precincts where the people live to be added to

today’s live caucus results. They then have to be reapportioned based on what each precinct voted.