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Originally Posted by zonacats8
So I have a very honest question here......
Outside of mail in ballots, why aren't voting totals known immediately after polls close (or when the voting is finished for people who are in line when the polls close as they're allowed to vote)?
Now I've only ever voted in the same location in my life, and I fill out my ballot and then put it into a machine that I counts my votes immediately (at least I assume it's counted right then and not just stored to be counted later). Which you'd think would then have the entire polling location totals the second voting is finished and could quickly and easily be reported.
If that's the case, how many polling locations don't have these machines and need to be counted in some other slower method?
In particular, what is the counting method used in major population centers as they always seem to be the slowest to return counts?
And why wouldn't the government not find a way to make sure every location has that machine so counts could be known immediately?
Probably a stupid question, but just seems like such an easy fix.
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Not a stupid question there are different states methods of tabulating and there is not a national standard.