How are the millions of votes counted in elections?
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It’s not that complex an operation.
Yesterday the US Stock Market (NYSE, NASDAQ, Cboe) traded 3,744,477,596 shares of stock. This is about how many they trade every day.
In 2016, Trump got 62,984,828 and Clinton got 65,853,514 for a total of 128,838,342 total. That’s 3.5% of an average stock market day.
With computers, these numbers are easy to tabulate, and in 3-5 days it’s common to have official, validated results for the whole country, down to ± 1 voter.
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