What Is The Rush Of Calling The Election The Night Of?....

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5. Ratings, which is to say, money

It's the media who are calling the elections. In many states - California, for one - the results aren't certified until all the final county tallies are rolled up: in our case that's 30 days after election day. We don't even have all the votes in on election day - mail ballots postmarked on or before the close of polls are accepted for 3 business days afterwards. And, yes, we do do audits.

Now if we could just get the media to act responsibly - well, we wouldn't have had Trump run in the first place.