Right: but let's think about the precise wording of that question a little more carefully. There is indeed a running total available before counties complete everything. However, that running total is still composed of batches, not individual votes. Some of those batches were very large indeed.
What do you define as a "batch"? Any arbitrary amount of votes that have yet to be submitted?
So someone could just count ballots and add them to a batch until it accrues 150K plus votes, and then send them all in as one "batch"?
Why were all the previous "batches", before that big spike, so small, then? Did they have a reason for not treating this big "batch" like all the others?
If I'm in charge of a county, and I submit "batches" in groups of 50, 100, 200, 300... what reason would I have for suddenly changing up my methodology and submitting tens or hundreds of thousands of votes in a batch?
I think the Colonel's explanation was that these aren't manually submitted vote counts, it's these networked machines that are submitting the totals automatically. It's just submitting numbers over the internet. In fact, he intercepted the data and found that they were being submitted with decimal places, not as whole numbers, and the decimal places weren't just ".00"
Why were there decimal places? Can people cast partial votes?
His answer for this was that there was an algorithm weighting the votes.
Read the post again carefully, think about all the adjectives, and then re-compute.
Here's what you said:
" You're telling us that it's okay for old, white, billionaire men to be allowed to mess with procedure and decorum whenever it suits them, but black women need to have some respect, shut the fuck up and do what they're told. "
Why do you think that I'm telling you that?
What makes you think I'm telling you that it's okay for old, white, billionaire men to be allowed to mess with procedure and decorum whenever it suits them, but black women need to have some respect, shut up and do what they're told?
Please explain.
