No it isn’t. What’s STUPID is that people expect the results 5 minutes after the polls close. This rush to push data out before they’re done is what causes all these goofy numbers. They shouldn’t publish ANY results until the next week. Do the voting, do the counting, SAY NOTHING, get all votes counted, announce all results. This was never a fast process, they just did a lot of lying to us because of exit polls. The fact is all those same night declarations we grew up on were generally done with less than 10% of the vote counted, but results matched the exit polls so they went with it. Then absentee voting became a big thing, the exit polls became useless and now we’re finally seeing the reality. Votes were NEVER tabulated in under 72 hours, it was a fiction. Time for everybody to stop believing it, and the government agencies to stop feeding the fiction.
With the wide use of voting machines, the results are ready to be published a minute after the last vote has been cast.
Bullshit.... I grew up in a major city in NJ, and worked many campaigns in the city and county... and we knew results in some cases, 3 hours after polls close, but worst case, 2am... never later than that. What’s going on today is pure bullshit.... they are cheating. Period.