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When the polls close on Election Day and no more voting is allowed, the election judge at each polling place has poll workers seal all the ballot boxes. The boxes are sent to a central vote-counting facility. This is usually a government office, such as a city hall or county courthouse. There, if paper ballots are still used, election officials manually read each ballot and add up the number of votes in each race. Where punch-card ballots are used, election officials count the ballots by hand, then run them through a mechanical punch card reader, which prints out a tally. For absentee/mail-in ballots, they're first cross-checked against voter registration records, to ensure there's no fraud taking place. On Election Day—but never before—state election officials count the mail-in ballots, and add the tally to the ballots cast in-person. With newer, fully computerized voting systems, the vote totals are transmitted automatically, or via removable digital media, to the central counting facility.
Despite all the brouhaha surrounding the 2020 US presidential election, not everyone--believe it or not--plans to vote. According to Business Insider, Americans who have chosen not to vote fall into six general categories. The first has to do with accessing the polling place: lacking time, transportation, child care, or problems with getting registered to vote. The second group could be named the 'Why bothers?' These people feel their votes don't count, the election is rigged, or their state has a lock on the opposing party. The third group can't vote because they're not allowed to. Perhaps they are felons, or are not US citizens, or owe outstanding fines. The fourth group won't vote because they dislike both candidates. The fifth group just doesn't feel like voting, and the sixth group cited religious or other reasons.
As the first polls open in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, voters in the capital Kinshasa have begun casting their ballots for the general elections. IMAGES
Supporters of William Ruto gather and celebrate in the streets, before the result is announced for the new president of Kenya. According to poll data the front runners, Ruto and Raila Odinga, have been neck and neck as the counting of the ballots has progressed. IMAGES
Managua, Jul 25 (EFE).- Nicaragua's multidisciplinary group Urnas Abiertas reported Sunday that the "absolute party control" of electoral structures and the reduction of voting centers by of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) were among other anomalies that marked the citizen verfication process.The Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) of Nicaragua has begun the process of citizen verification of the electoral roll, ahead of the general elections on Nov. 7, in which the country's President, Sandinista Daniel Ortega, will seek his fourth re-election and third in a row. (Camera: RENÉE LUCIA RAMOS).B-ROLL OF THE CITIZEN VERIFICATION OF THE ELECTOROAL ROLL AHEAD OF THE GENERAL ELECTIONS ON NOV. 7 IN MANAGUA, NICARAGUA.
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