I was listening to the VA returns on Faux news last night (Sorry, mom likes Faux). I looked up and the ticker said 96% in and a few minutes later, they were back to 94%. Shortly after, they were apparently called out on it and tried to explain it away. Their excuse... they get their numbers from the AP who bases the total voter count on 2017 voter numbers (the last governors race) and they use those numbers to align to votes counted. So instead of looking at the number of registered voters or even votes in 2020, they calculate using old data.
Apparently my use of common sense, thinking that the percentage of votes counted was actually a percentage of votes in, was nonsense.
How in the hell are we supposed to get good information these days if everyone is using the same crap.
I was listening to the VA returns on Faux news last night (Sorry, mom likes Faux). I looked up and the ticker said 96% in and a few minutes later, they were back to 94%. Shortly after, they were apparently called out on it and tried to explain it away. Their excuse... they get their numbers from the AP who bases the total voter count on 2017 voter numbers (the last governors race) and they use those numbers to align to votes counted. So instead of looking at the number of registered voters or even votes in 2020, they calculate using old data.
Apparently my use of common sense, thinking that the percentage of votes counted was actually a percentage of votes in, was nonsense.
How in the hell are we supposed to get good information these days if everyone is using the same crap.
There's your problem right there.