Am I missing something?

[PCIntern]

Of COURSE ballots are counted after the polls close. How would you count votes before the polls close? Orangina stated that he didn’t want any ballots counted after the polls close. Does anyone listen or care anymore? About anything?

[LizBeth]

1. That is what everyone is saying. How stupid is that. Can't tell people to get their votes in by a

time then if they are counted by the time polls close we just throw them away. That is stupid.

[uponit7771]

2. Trump said he didn't want any ... VOTING ... after the polls are closed, he is king at word play

[Mike 03]

3. And we were all told and warned that the heavily Dem ballots would be among the last

to be counted because they were largely mail-in and absentee. There are so many ballots, in theory, that have not been counted.

I still am struggling to understand how we seemed to give up so quickly on some of these states.

[progree]

4. I thought votes were counted whenever a ballot is run thru the machine, it's just not reported

until the polls close.

In MN in early voting, we fed our ballots into the machine, and that went to a computer file somewhere. It just wasn't all added up and revealed (or if it was added up, that was encrypted to the nth degree so that a human wouldn't be able to see it and lead it, I'm just guessing in all of this), but a computer can do the addition in milliseconds.

[Hestia]

6. Nope, not every state - ours sit unopened until the day of the election

[progree]

7. OK, but I said WHENEVER the ballot is run through the machine

meaning the data then goes to a computer file and a computer can easily access and add things up.

I'm aware that some states don't even open the envelopes until election day, and then they have to check that its properly filled out and signatures match and so on, and then run it through the tabulator and that all takes time.

[malaise]

5. Brother I weep for the USA

for all my generations who live there

[Solomon]

8. They always count well beyond election night. Certifications aren't done until

December after all the votes are counted. Every election.

[cwydro]

9. The world is mad.

I’m reading all my bookmarked threads....”landslide, don’t be worried, he’ll be humiliated, he’s done, blue wave....”

Not real happy this morning.