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The 100 million votes are in easy reach and clear to read. The 7 million are scattered all over the place and includes all the difficult cases where you need to
by ptaipale 10y ago
The 100 million votes are in easy reach and clear to read. The 7 million are scattered all over the place and includes all the difficult cases where you need to decide whether the vote is eligible or not, and is clearly readable or not, etc.
- leereeves 10y agoThat's not what the media reported. For example: > “We probably have about 7 million votes left to count,” said David Wasserman, an editor at Cook Political Report who is tracking turnout. “A majority of them are on the coasts, in New York, California, and Washington. > What’s with the delay? Several states, notably California and Washington, have liberal absentee and mail-in voting laws. California, for instance, allows residents to submit ballots up to three days late (although they must be postmarked on or before Election Day). These provisions have made alternative voting pretty popular, and the ballots a bit harder to count. California alone has more than 4 million votes pending; Washington is waiting on another 700,000. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/clintons-popular-vote-lead-will-grow-and-grow/507455/ http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/clintons... Not scattered (4 million in CA alone), and not necessarily hard to read (mail in ballots).
- ptaipale 10y agoStill, they were not in the ballot boxes where the majority votes are. That checking of postmarking date of an absentee ballot, one by one, is what makes things slow for those kind of votes.