Election Results
1. All polls don't close at the same time because people can vote if they are in line when time is up, so locations are able to close at different times based on how many people are still there.
2. Poll workers at each site have to close down voting machines and then download and print a summary of the voting machines using the memory cards that hold the votes.
3. Vote counts are delivered to the central location through reading over the phone, machines connecting directly to a telephone line, or the memory cards being delivered physically.
4. Rural areas are farther from official headquarters, and the distance can make their votes go in slower.
5. Some states don't report any type of result on election day, so journalists there would be the first source of election results.
6. Absentee ballots can take a long time to be counted, thus slowing the official results.
7. Provisional ballots are a ballot distributed in the case of someone's name not showing up, incorrect information being shown, or the system saying that person already voted.
8. Official results are made public after the election is called because results have to be canvassed. Each vote has to be counted, verified, and officially certified by counties and then the state.
9. In the Progressive Era, speed of results was emphasized because the faster votes are counted, the smaller the window for someone to tamper with results.
2. Poll workers at each site have to close down voting machines and then download and print a summary of the voting machines using the memory cards that hold the votes.
3. Vote counts are delivered to the central location through reading over the phone, machines connecting directly to a telephone line, or the memory cards being delivered physically.
4. Rural areas are farther from official headquarters, and the distance can make their votes go in slower.
5. Some states don't report any type of result on election day, so journalists there would be the first source of election results.
6. Absentee ballots can take a long time to be counted, thus slowing the official results.
7. Provisional ballots are a ballot distributed in the case of someone's name not showing up, incorrect information being shown, or the system saying that person already voted.
8. Official results are made public after the election is called because results have to be canvassed. Each vote has to be counted, verified, and officially certified by counties and then the state.
9. In the Progressive Era, speed of results was emphasized because the faster votes are counted, the smaller the window for someone to tamper with results.
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