Explaining Election Day: How ballots are counted
From the Explaining Election Day: Understanding the processes from voting to declaring winners series
Unlike many countries, U.S. elections are highly decentralized and include long lists of races. Elections for president and Congress all the way down to local offices are run by county, town and state election officials, not by any national election officials.
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The Associated Press has created a series of videos explaining how elections work in the Uni…
The few counties that have attempted the massive task to count ballots by hand have found the process more time-consuming, expensive and inaccurate than expected.
