Wednesday, March 5, 2008

How can it take days to count the votes?

On MSNBC just now, Chuck Todd, their political director, made the point that in some rural counties it can take days to count the votes. How on earth can this be? It's not like he was suggesting that these were areas in which precincts had millions of voters: the suggestion was that they were sparsely populated. How can it take so long?
Are they walking the results in to the county seat? Don't they have telephones? Computers? Calculators? Fingers? Rudimentary arithmetic skills?

Yours, bemused, befuddled and completely bewildered,
N.

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