Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Both Nevada and Arizona need to take action after this election to get their ducks in a row.
It is ridiculous that tabulating votes is taking this long. Their election officials should be embarrassed.
A lot of states arent done counting. Their races just aren't as close. That being said the amount of time it takes to count votes in the US is absurd.
So, there are 19 house seats that have not been called (by NPR, the number varies from 18-20 depending on which media vendor your visit). Almost all are close races within about 1% of each other. There are also almost no states that are 100% completed with the election tabulations. But in all of the called races, the vote tallies are far enough along that each of the media vendors are willing to call the race saying that the remaining outstanding votes are unlikely to change the results.
The remaining races that have not been called are too close to call. Would you rather that they called the race and then later had to go back and recant the call? That's happened in the past and the decision teams that made the calls, were royally roasted for doing so, including by the candidate that was declared a winner, but ultimately lost.
To give you an idea, today, 6 days after the election day, the 19 seats not called include AK-1, AZ-6, CA-3, CA-6, CA-9, CA-13, CA-21, CA-22, CA-27, CA-34, CA-41, CA-45, CA-47, CA-49, CO-3, CO-8, ME-2, NY-22, OR-6. 12 races in California alone (more than half of the uncalled races). Why aren't you calling out California for getting its ducks in a row?
It makes more sense to blame the voters for a close race than to blame those counting the votes. Talk about killing the messenger. PP doesn't know what they are talking about. Too used to growing up in a world of instantaneous information and completely oblivious to the world that goes on behind the scenes to make that PP's facade work.