(09-16-2021 12:03 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Curious how they managed to count all these votes, including mail in, in one night.

When swing states in November took 3 weeks.

We've only explained this to you like a dozen times now. Why can you still not understand it?

In November, at least 2 key states (MI and PA) were prevented by their GOP lead state legislatures from counting any votes before the morning of the election. I believe in both states the democrats sought to have mail in ballots counted ahead but the GOP would not change the state laws to make this happen. Florida, however, did make such a change and their votes were counted in short order.

Therefore, MI and PA started counting mail-in ballots the morning of the election, but once their polls closed, they moved to counting the same day in person votes, which mostly came from Republicans. So, since mail-in ballots are mostly used by democrats...and by state law were counted later than same day votes...trump had the early lead, and then lost that lead when the democrat heavy mail in ballots were processed.

Additionally, I don't believe any state concludes their counting on the day of or the day after the election. Most all have late arriving military and overseas ballots to count and they need to deal with provisional ballots and other normal issues related to ballots, etc....so bottom line...many take days and weeks before they have 100% reporting and a final tally. Granted, some of these states just have horrific processes in place (here's looking at you New York) that need to be upgraded and replaced...which takes money.

Lastly, California is currently estimated at only 78% of ballots counted as of last night.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gavin-n...esults-map