Why Does The Counting Take So Long?

[ToraToraTora]

Pennsylvania has been on 89% for over 15 hours!

[agchristie]

Rumour has it that Diane Abbott is at one table ho ho!

[jim360]

Because there are a lot of mail-in votes to count, and each has to be verified etc.

[ToraToraTora]

yeah but you'd think it'd move 1% in 15 hours!

[jim360]

It depends also on how the data is released -- in large batches or continuously. Clearly, they are releasing most data in batches, rather than adding each single vote to the official count.

[Ellipsis]

I suspect it will move from 89% to 100% in one go.

[ichkeria]

No it hasn’t.
The numbers are slowly increasing

[Peter Pedant]

// Rumour has it that Diane Abbott is at one table ho ho!// poor Diane

Georgia at this very moment - the returning officer is reading out how many votes remain to be counted, and is otherwise giving a press conference

with answers like -" gedd artta here - I am complying with Georgia law sir!"

[agchristie]

The returning officer from Georgia has just confirmed that there has been no Russian interference whatsoever as he stood at the count in Tbilisi.

ho ho!

[Peter Pedant]

well he (Trump) is certainly behaving as tho he has lost

twitter has said he cant say the votes will be discounted - because he is not the one who has the say ....

[royfromaus]

It's a farce.

[JimF]

They got to 65,000 and had no idea where to go next.

[ichkeria]

Why is it a farce?

[mushroom25]

Mark Austin (Sky News) made a fair point - "never again can the Americans mock cricket because it goes on for days with no winner". :-)

[maggiebee]

Have never really understood the US method of voting - it seems quite a complicated system.

[pastafreak]

Don't forget they are 5 hours behind us.

[Tyrion44]

Just heard on Sky tv news that they took time off for administration work - how true I don’t know

[jim360]

// Don't forget they are 5 hours behind us. //

Only in terms of time zones. In some ways they're decades behind us :)

[Peter Pedant]

// The returning officer from Georgia....//
has confirmed (da) he played Ilya Kuryakin in the Man from UNCLE in the sixties

[Peter Pedant]

It is a farce roy from aus
Why is it a farce?

because it was first played as a comedy in 2016
ter daah !

( history is played twice - once as ....)
ay thenk yew !