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In response to "Honest question: About 25% (nearly 33 million people) of the electorate have now voted. Why don't we know how they voted?" by decline

That is the law in every state i can think of.

Posted by ReluctantCynic (aka ReluctantCynic) Nov 3 '16, 08:07

Elections offices can process ballots and count the votes from those ballots, but voting results cannot be released until after the deadline to vote.

For example, here in Oregon, ballots were mailed on October 19, and county election offices have been processing them since Tuesday. But results are embargoed until 8:01pm on Tuesday (Election Day)

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ok, this all makes sense. Then on Tues at 8:01 we could have a really good idea of where this election is going -- nm - decline Nov 3, 08:12 7
- Florida, Georgia (7 EST) and NC/Ohio (730 EST) are the exit polls I'm most interested in. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 08:17 2
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    - I think we can all agree that Wolf Blitzer gets a place of honour on the rocket to the sun. -- nm - Reagen Nov 3, 08:23
- Yep! Though then we can see how much restraint the media has. - ReluctantCynic Nov 3, 08:14
- Have they actually registered the votes? Absentee ballots don't get counted unless needed, right? -- nm - JaxSean Nov 3, 08:14 2
  - Selecting which votes count and which aren't worth counting? That sounds unconstitutional to me. -- nm - Max Nov 3, 08:35
  - It depends on the state. In most states, "absentee" ballots are regular ballots. - ReluctantCynic Nov 3, 08:19

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That is the law in every state i can think of.

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