# Oregon and Wisconsin **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 8, 2000, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-and-wisconsin/40278 "2000-11-08T10:10:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-and-wisconsin/40278/1 "2000-11-08T10:10:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-and-wisconsin/40278/2 "2000-11-08T10:17:55Z")
I’ve been wondering this myself. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Jimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@Jimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-and-wisconsin/40278/3 "2000-11-08T10:18:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-and-wisconsin/40278/4 "2000-11-08T14:30:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-and-wisconsin/40278/5 "2000-11-08T14:36:37Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Thirsty4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Thirsty4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirsty4)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-and-wisconsin/40278/6 "2000-11-08T14:45:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-and-wisconsin/40278/7 "2000-11-11T00:51:20Z")
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?