# Will all the absentee ballots be counted, nationwide? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 13, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-all-the-absentee-ballots-be-counted-nationwide/771756 "2016-11-13T02:28:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-all-the-absentee-ballots-be-counted-nationwide/771756/3 "2016-11-13T03:14:39Z")
In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=810429), **drewder** made the following claims: > [@Electoral College revolt?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electoral-college-revolt/771529/65): > > Don’t forget that she only won the popular vote until we stopped counting. The absentee ballots only get counted if the election is close enough and absentee voters tend to favor republicans, military, overseas business folk, old people. Historically they break down 2/3 in favor of republicans. In fact when gore won by 500,000 votes there were 2 million absentee ballots in California alone. I assume that all the votes will eventually be added to the popular vote tally, but googling brought up conflicting information. > [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > I do not believe that Wisconsin or Pennsylvania have enough outstanding ballots to switch their results. Michigan isn’t being called by CNN precisely because there are sufficient outstanding ballots to overcome the Trump lead there; I’ve been watching those totals and as they update, it seems the lead remains about 13,000 votes. But you know for sure that all the outstanding ballots in WI and PA will be added to the final count? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-all-the-absentee-ballots-be-counted-nationwide/771756)._