2016 Postmortem

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts) Tue Jun 7, 2016, 07:29 PM Jun 2016

Will there even be a call for California tonight, given that it's mostly mail-in there

and they continue counting ballots for a few days as long as they're postmarked by a certain date?

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Will there even be a call for California tonight, given that it's mostly mail-in there (Original Post) geek tragedy Jun 2016 OP

CA pre-votes and votes cast today come in fast. anything still floating in the mail is msongs Jun 2016 #1

I think you will see a call at 11 pm et for Hillary Gomez163 Jun 2016 #2

The media has already crowned the winner. Why bother counting them at all? It's like valerief Jun 2016 #3

Yes, they are being counted nadinbrzezinski Jun 2016 #4

They are way ahead in the counting of the mail-in ballots and the first results tandem5 Jun 2016 #5

Santa Clara County - one of the larger ones Retrograde Jun 2016 #6

msongs

(67,395 posts)

1. CA pre-votes and votes cast today come in fast. anything still floating in the mail is

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Tue Jun 7, 2016, 07:34 PM

Jun 2016

highly unlikely to change anything

Gomez163

(2,039 posts)

2. I think you will see a call at 11 pm et for Hillary

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Tue Jun 7, 2016, 07:34 PM

Jun 2016

valerief

(53,235 posts)

3. The media has already crowned the winner. Why bother counting them at all? It's like

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Tue Jun 7, 2016, 08:33 PM

Jun 2016

Florida 2000.

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)

4. Yes, they are being counted

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Tue Jun 7, 2016, 08:36 PM

Jun 2016

And the first batch will be email votes

Of course, then they will make us wait a good 45 minutes for the next update. In 2012 that took 3 hours in San Diego

tandem5

(2,072 posts)

5. They are way ahead in the counting of the mail-in ballots and the first results

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Tue Jun 7, 2016, 08:45 PM

Jun 2016

that come in will reflect that.

Retrograde

(10,133 posts)

6. Santa Clara County - one of the larger ones

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Tue Jun 7, 2016, 08:52 PM

Jun 2016

says on its voting website that it got back 33% of its mail-in ballots as of yesterday, so if other counties follow that pattern there will be some bases for calling a few races. That's from over 600,000 ballots were sent out, which is a third of the total county population - not just eligible voters!

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