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Each state still has to count absentee and provisional ballots. Florida is not the only state in which the number of ballots not yet counted exceeds the number of votes needed to sway the election. The margin here is approximately 300,000, but other states hinge on half as much or less. Granted, a large number of absentee ballots will have been submitted by those in the military, and the military generally votes Republican. However, right now we don’t even have 100% of all normal votes across the nation tallied. There’s really no way to tell the true outcome of the election yet.

I may be wrong on the details, but I believe the national deadline for counting all absentee ballots is Nov. 12th. After that, they’ll probably still be haggling over provisional ballots - people whose registration is in question, ballots incorrectly cast, etc. That will be hashed out in the courts for weeks. The folks in the Electoral College don’t cast their votes until January 9th, so although the popular vote may (MAY!) be decided by then, the president-elect isn’t formally and legally declared until January.

What’s my point? It isn’t news yet! Normally I enjoy working overnight, but all everyone talked about all night long was the election. CNN (the only choice on the company television) had nothing but election coverage, and I assume it was the same for other news networks. Get over it, people. If you read between the lines, all they’re telling you are PROJECTED victories. We don’t know yet. We can’t know yet.

I think I want to move to Canada.

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