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> Many states stop counting when a winner is clear and many states don't count the mail-in votes at all unless it's really close.

Hey guru! Please learn how to be a critical consumer of information on the internet. We need less sheeple and more thinking people, ok?

Are absentee ballots counted?

Yes, all votes are counted, whether they're cast in-person or by absentee ballot.

It is a common misconception that absentee ballots are only counted during very tight races. This misconception stems from two things: one, absentee ballots are often counted for days after the election since many are coming from abroad; two, absentee ballots are often a small percentage of all voted ballots. Many elections have a clear winner, so the absentee ballots that are still being counted after election night don't affect the results as predicted right after the polls close. As absentee voting becomes more popular, however, an increasing number of elections are decided by absentee ballots.

http://help.vote.org/article/8-are-absentee-ballots-counted

Still millions of ballots that will never be counted.

Absentee ballots in most states with clear winners are not counted.

False. All votes are counted, absentee or otherwise. It may take awhile, and elections may be called before the ballots are all counted, but they are indeed all counted.

http://help.vote.org/article/8...
https://www.fvap.gov/vao/vag/a...

All votes are counted, absentee or not. Previous posters provided these useful links:

http://help.vote.org/article/8...
https://www.fvap.gov/vao/vag/a...

The absentee ballots may not be counted right away if they can't possibly affect the election results. However, the final certified totals do include all absentee ballots. See http://help.vote.org/article/8...

You, good sir, are hereby awarded the most helpful comment of the day on slashdot award.

The absentee ballots may not be counted right away if they can't possibly affect the election results. However, the final certified totals do include all absentee ballots. See http://help.vote.org/article/8...

Does this mean next time they want to pull a 9/11 move, it will be easier or harder? These criminals need to go to jail. I don't think we should be shutting down our sky coordination system under the current regime. Is regime the right word for when there isn't a valid election?

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0310/S00211.htm
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?Channe lID=31
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboa rd.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1108892&mes g_id=1127482

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20040731 213239607
http://www.vote.org/911/
http://standdown.net/

So, um, yeah, back on subject:

Hurray!

If you want to see what is really behind the child abuse in this country:

http://www.vote.org/silence/

Meanwhile to block big box stores the Boulder City council annexes the moons and declares them openspace.

Boulder now 30 some miles surrounded by reality and still hounded by a constant football scandal.

Property tax assessments to rise yet again.

Local bus service to the moons is be nickednamed trek, to compliment the hop, skip, jump and bound routes; However no trek service after midnight.

The key is the quality of the candidates and how much effort they expend to educate the people.

If the the candidates are crap, no one votes. If no one understands the candidates, no one votes.

However, if the System works a bit more like you suggest and in is fact done in Switzerland and championed in the US (here ...allow citizens to initiate laws and amendments).

What we want is some kind of system which stimulates the public to understand what it is they are voting for. Small, incremental elections would at least mean less is at stake.

Voting for referenda in the manner you suggest (lots of polls online etc) also means one might have problems without another Florida.

At the moment via two presidential candidates, you vote left or right. If the "granularity" of the elections was finer, there'd be more resolution.

(Huh! pun and geek metaphor in one)

Any one who loses the election will request a recount... of all the paper ballots.

What if N paper ballots/receipts go missing, with N > than the winning margin? A lot seem to go missing currently. There is some consensus that there does not need to be a paper audit trail at the voter level. I agree; there are too many voters and our 18th c paper system is already badly creaking under the weight.

There is another solution, albeit a non-technical one (perish the thought): devolve critical election or representatives to referenda (with some exceptions; not everything can be put to popular referenda).

The Internet was meant for this.