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Roisin Ni Fiachra

(2,574 posts) Mon Nov 2, 2020, 03:06 PM Nov 2020

AP Explains: The election result may be delayed. That's OK.

Source: Associated Press

We may not know who won the presidential election on Tuesday night. And if so, it does not necessarily mean anything is broken, fraudulent, corrupted or wrong.
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BUT DON’T NEWS ORGANIZATIONS CALL A WINNER BEFORE ALL THE VOTE IS COUNTED?

Yes, there’s never been a presidential race in history in which all votes are counted on election night. It’s just not physically possible to instantly count that many ballots — possibly as many as 150 million on the night of Nov. 3.

Media organizations, including The Associated Press, declare winners in thousands of races on election night based on the results that are in, voter surveys and other political data.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-elections-presidential-elections-d9208787554db4c4575579f6b75a7cde

Good, informative article.

Hoping for a major Joe landslide so that AP calls the election on the night of Nov. 3rd, and ruins little Adolf Trumpler's plans to steal our election.

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Old Project Management Adage ProfessorGAC Nov 2020 #1

ProfessorGAC

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1. Old Project Management Adage

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Mon Nov 2, 2020, 03:11 PM

Nov 2020

Projects are measured by how fast, how cheap, & how high the quality.
You can only have 2.
Want high quality, fast? It'll cost you.
Want fast & cheap? Quality suffers.
Want high quality & cheap? Better have patience.
Same thing with voting result.
And since accuracy is king in counting votes, it either has to be hugely expensive to do it fast, or we wait patiently.

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