Here's what I don't effing get(Re: Alaska)

[Tiggeroshii]

There are only about 626,000 people living in Alaska. The voting population of Alaska probably ranges between 3 and 400,000. All the networks reported the Alaska returns as being 99% counted. However, there were more 90,000 votes NOT COUNTED on election night.

90,000/400,000=22.5% NOT COUNTED give or take a couple percentage points from my shoddy estimations, but it's around there. 22.5% means that they only counted 77.5% of the vote on election night.

Is the media stupid?

:wtf:

[BrklynLiberal]

1. The difference may be early voting and absentee, and provisional votes

[Tiggeroshii]

3. Still, why wouldn't they include those votes as being part of the vote total?

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Because they had not been counted yet??

[Tiggeroshii]

7. They know they will need to count them.

They've known since Election day that there were "90,0000 unaccounted for ballots." What I don't understand is why don't they include those ballots in ballots that will need to be counted. When they don't include them as part of the total(by total I mean total amount of ballots that need to be counted, whether or not they ARE counted), it gives the impression that those ballots aren't worth counting, and keeps us from paying attention to them. So that we are happy with the results that came from the 99% of precincts reporting.

[Dragonfli]

2. Yes - Willfully so nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. When they say 99%, they mean precincts, not ballots

[clear eye]

6. The media meant 99% of precincts reporting,

however the precincts reported w/o counting all the absentee and last-minute mail-in ballots (lots of Alaskans vote mail-in because of difficulty of travel in large parts of the state) which are still coming in, and definitely w/o making determinations on the provisional votes. Provisional votes are normally only looked into in the event of a close race like this one.

So both the media and you are correct. The percentages are referring to two different things.