There are an estimated 12,000 ballots left to count as of late Thursday evening. Most of those ballots are from Arapahoe County. Only 85 percent of the county’s votes are reported. Arapahoe County supported Laubacher overwhelmingly (60.9 percent) to Boebert’s 35.8 percent.
According to NBC News, Boebert must win 61.4 percent of the remaining vote to overtake Laubacher.
I’ll never understand why the USA takes months and months to build up to an election and weeks to count the results afterwards. Other countries take a few weeks for the campaign and have the whole thing counted within a day of the polls closing.
While I won’t argue that US election campaigns are long, the counting afterwards has a good explanation. The two big factors that make counting votes so complex is we have 50 versions of elections, and we bote for everything at once.
I’ve heard that French presidential campaigns take like one night but if I recall correctly the only thing being voted on is the presidential candidate. This makes hand sifting of the ballot into piles extremely easy and then a machine or person can just count them.
In the US you vote for a whole slew of things all at once. Proposed changes to state law through propositions, your house representative, your governor, you STATE representative, senator, STATE senator, sheriff, university head, city council, and on and on and on. So tabulating all these is a bit more complicated.
Then you have the 50 different systems. So Mississippi is going to take a while, that’s because they allow for absentee mail in ballots to come in 5 days late and if a voter on election day didn’t have proper ID they have 5 days to shoe proper ID and then vote. This guarantees it is going to take long after voting day to get results.
That’s democracy, baby!
Are you ok? Have you maybe experienced an episode of sorts that distorts your perception of time? It’s been 2 fucking days.
No, I’ve just witnessed US elections for many decades and seen how they tend to go.
Because it’s dramatic
It’s because it’s a money making machine for the media for the lead up. Counting the votes is for when it’s close and/or corrupt states.
Damn media making it take a few days for mail in ballots to arrive
Easy fix, already used in other countries: start mailing sooner so they arrive before the election day.
The issue when it’s that close you still have to wait for everything to come in. We mail out 1-3 months in advance depending on state, but in some states you just have to have it post marked on election day
Ridiculous answer. So “the media” wrote the constitution and invented the concept of a presidential system now?