Posted on 08/27/2022 4:54:05 AM PDT by george76
They have to wait for the last absentee ballots, allowed 15 days after election day.
I guess due to ranked choice voting, these last few ballots do matter and the race can not be called `early` on election night, without these mail in votes.
Way back in the day elections were held in person. Everyone for Smith went to one side of the street/hall/tavern, everyone for Jones to the other. Count heads. Most votes wins.
Later this was improved by having paper ballots. Smith on green paper, Jones on red paper. Ballot boxes were transparent so everyone (including the guy who gave you a shot of whisky) could see how you voted. Most votes wins.
Around 1900 the ‘secret ballot’ became the norm. Now nobody knows how you vote, but still most votes wins, unless the ballot box is stuffed.
Now we’ve progressed to ranked-choice voting where nobody knows who wins for weeks after the election. Progress!
Exactly.🤔
Alaska will be counting for weeks until dimocrats get it right.
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