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I've never seen any preliminary results announcing numbers of votes - it's always rounded up percentages with 1 or 2 decimals.

ptero 2y ago
If the vote numbers were not provided, this would not have been an issue. But in this case they did announce the vote numbers.
zamadatix 2y ago
I'd say it's extremely common to announce numbers of votes both as they come in and when the final total is known. Here in the US major news networks (ABC, CNN, Fox, 270towin, and others) all have live maps that show the total number of votes + total percentages during the voting period. They usually also let you hover over the states/counties to see the percentages and votes for the particular area. E.g. here's the Fox map https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results and total votes comes first in the same font as percentages marked to the side. During the election these totals and percentages are live numbers. And in the US we're not even that interested in the popular vote since it's all about the electoral college which has historically not always aligned with the popular vote numbers anyways yet we still list the totals as they come in.
yongjik 2y ago
In my country (Korea) they broadcast vote counts, per district, in real time as data pours in from all over the country. It's a big entertainment going on for the whole night. And you can log onto the website of the office of the election commission and see raw numbers by each voting district. It's 2024; I'd consider it a minimum level of government competency if anyone wants to be called a democratic country.
- lumb63 2y ago
  As an American, boy, do I have news for you…
- GolberThorce 2y ago
  [flagged]
- HPsquared 2y ago
  This process led to a lot of controversy in the 2020 US Presidential election.

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I've never seen any preliminary results announcing numbers of votes - it's always rounded up percentages with 1 or 2 decimals.

by nikolay 2y ago

ptero 2y ago
If the vote numbers were not provided, this would not have been an issue. But in this case they did announce the vote numbers.
zamadatix 2y ago
I'd say it's extremely common to announce numbers of votes both as they come in and when the final total is known. Here in the US major news networks (ABC, CNN, Fox, 270towin, and others) all have live maps that show the total number of votes + total percentages during the voting period. They usually also let you hover over the states/counties to see the percentages and votes for the particular area. E.g. here's the Fox map https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results and total votes comes first in the same font as percentages marked to the side. During the election these totals and percentages are live numbers. And in the US we're not even that interested in the popular vote since it's all about the electoral college which has historically not always aligned with the popular vote numbers anyways yet we still list the totals as they come in.
yongjik 2y ago
In my country (Korea) they broadcast vote counts, per district, in real time as data pours in from all over the country. It's a big entertainment going on for the whole night. And you can log onto the website of the office of the election commission and see raw numbers by each voting district. It's 2024; I'd consider it a minimum level of government competency if anyone wants to be called a democratic country.
- lumb63 2y ago
  As an American, boy, do I have news for you…
- GolberThorce 2y ago
  [flagged]
- HPsquared 2y ago
  This process led to a lot of controversy in the 2020 US Presidential election.