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SickOfTheOnePct

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1. Thing is
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 03:57 PM
Nov 2016

they already do that. ALL of the election night numbers are unofficial - the canvassing of votes begins in earnest the next day, and that's where manual math errors are found, where transposed numbers are fixed, where vote categorization errors are corrected, etc. That's why official results aren't normally certified for weeks after the election.

The problem is that people look at the unofficial results, take them as gospel, then cry "conspiracy!!" when errors are corrected. Instead of being glad that errors are caught and fixed, they complain about it.

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