Reply #19: do your own "central tabulation" [View All]

[Cos]

If your precincts aren't required to post their results at the precinct before transmitting them to the central tabulator, they should be. Here in MA, precincts post their results as soon as they're done counting. An improvement would be to require them to also post the precinct results online, but I think a lot of places aren't technically able to do that yet (except by transmitting their results to a central site). But good campaigns post poll watchers at every precinct, and one of the things those poll watchers do is call in their precinct's results as soon as they're posted. The campaigns add them up, and usually have the election winner well before the official process announces anything. If you're not on a campaign, but organizing an election reform group, one of the things you can do is post poll watchers everywhere and collect all of the results to add up yourself, as well.