But why has it been shrinking. I've been watching it every hour of every day, recording the shrinkage and cannot believe it. Why would the Provisional ballots be anything like near enough to change the percentage? Where are the military ballots? Are ALL BALLOTS counted, even in states that are clear cut for one or the other candidates in terms of electoral votes? Or do they just stop counting them when the difference won't make a difference? I'm beginning to become suspicious now of real foul play, and not on our part.
"But why has it been shrinking."
Probably because California had a lot of absentee (not provisional, not overseas military, but ballots sent in via the mail by ordinary voters). I live here and am one of the absentee voters. L.A. County had well over 250,000. San Diego County had 250,000. I believe the entire state had well over 1 million. (Compare that to states like New Mexico and Iowa that may have had 10,000 - 30,000 absentee votes. Unlike balots dropped in the ballot box on election day, absentee ballots are sealed in an envelope and signed by the voter. Each envelope has to be opened and the signature compared to the voter registration rolls. This is a time consuming process.
As these Calif votes are gradually counted and due to the size of Calif, Kerry is bound to gain some ground. But it's interesting. Gore won California by 1.4 million votes or so. Kerry is only winning CA by a little over 1 million votes.