Please explain to this dumb hoosier how CNN gets this information before it is posted on Secretary of State website??
Well, CNN would hate this, but they are supposed to be a money making enterprise, correct? So their incentive is to get the information out there, get lots of viewers and make their advertisers happy. (Something they haven't done lately, I guess.)
At any rate, those happy free enterprising reporters at CNN are letting their fingers do the walking -- calling, calling, calling and getting results.
Free enterprise beats govt employees, even if the free enterprisers are from CNN.
Capitalism.
CNN has a profit-motivated incentive to be quick and accurate. The SoS has no such incentive.