Congratulations! Really, truly exciting.
Maybe you can answer a question I’ve posed on FR a few times since this turnaround. I’ve closed several election polls in VA over the years, and we call our results in to the state electoral board that enters them in the state’s unofficial results.
The media follows that state board’s tallies. We never call anything into the media. I don’t know if it’s forbidden, but it’s just not done. Is there a reason the Clerks call their numbers into AP in WI?
Sorry can not answer that.
In Illinois, the law requires that the results are posted at the polling places. Locally we use paper ballots with ovals filled in by the voter. They are scanned as the voter places them in the machine which also records the vote. At the end of the day the election officials run off two tapes of the results. One is posted on the window of the polling place and the other along with the ballots and scanner memory card are taken to the county election officials. They provide totals to the media. I suspect few if any ever check the posted results at the polling place.