Oregon and Wisconsin

[Commander Fortune]

Why haven't the election results been called in those two states yet? We have all this Florida hoopla recount business going on, but I haven't seen results for those two states either. I know it doesn't really matter at this point, I just don't understand why they haven't weighed in by now.

[evilbeth]

I've been wondering this myself. Anyone?

[Jimpy]

ABC declared Gore the winner in Wisconsin, but Oregon has only 72% of the vote counted although Bush has a 3% lead. Maybe after Florida, they're getting touchy about declaring states.

[Alphagene]

Heh. C-Span's website called Wisc for Gore already (with a 6000 vote lead)

But in addition to Oregon and Florida C-Span hasn't called New Mexico, either.

Go fig.

[John Corrado]

Most of Oregon's ballots were mail-in ballots, which means they'll take a lot longer to read. (Why? 'Cause rather than dumping a box of ballots into the auto-sorter to be counted, you have to open each envelope and remove the ballot one at a time).

Most reports I've seen say that Oregon's results will be finished tabulating by the end of this week.

[Thirsty4]

I thought all of Oregon's ballots were mail-in ballots. How long does it typically take for them all to be counted, could they hurry it up more by requesting more volunteers to open envelopes.

[dtilque]

All of Oregon's votes were mail-in. But Oregon had a turnout of over 80% and lots of them were dropped off on election day. Plus, they had some kind of problems with computers in Jackson County (Medford).

Now about 99% of the votes have been counted and KGW (http://kgw.com/kgwnews/top_story.html?StoryID=8863) (Portland TV station) has declared Gore the winner in Oregon. And if you can't believe the TV, who can you believe?