[elpadre]

Regarding the popular vote: I have been led to believe over the years that popular vote totals in national elections are far from accurate as when states make a declaration for a candidate, the absentee and provisional ballots are unnecessary and therefore not counted.

Is that true?

[sima_yi]

No, whoever is saying that is misinformed. Besides the voting for the presidential electors, there are down ticket races and issues which also are on the same absentee and provisional ballots, and these might be much closer.

Hence, all the votes must be counted. (Unfortunately, this includes the dead people vote.)

[xkaydet65]

Unless the only elective office on the ballot is for POTUS I would believe this is not true. Do you stop counting when you have races from Senator down to alderman to decide. Or do you count those and ignore POTUS votes because that’s been decided?