enough about florida, whats with oregon?

[Lorax]

ok, so florida had to recount their votes. whats oregons excuse, the fact that they arent pivotal anymore?

 

[Total Refected Power]

Mail in votes. Not fully counted until the weekend. Plus not enough to push Gore or Bush (obviously) to 270.

 

[Pretender]

No one cares about Oregon. With all the uselessness they have in this election (they're just as useless as all the others with 9 or less votes, but the other useless states counted quicker so their uselessness wasn't so apparent), I can't wait to see their voting turnout rates in 4 yrs.

 

[Futuramatic]

Naw.. something else is amiss in Oregon. they had 48% of the vote counted last night 2 hours after the polls closed.. and its all mail-in (if I am not mistaken). Why did it take this long to get the rest done?

 

[BigSmooth]

I am in Oregon, and I am baffled. We had mail-in ballots that are being counted by computer. For some reason (broken computer?), almost none got counted today (only about 5%) and the vote is close enough here that they can't call it yet.

Pretender, that's a pretty cynical view! We almost always "don't matter" with all the east coast tallied before our polls even close, but they expected 80-85% turnout this year. And this year, 7 votes did matter. If Bush ends up with 271, then ANY state going the other way would have changed matters.

 

[Pretender]

Uh the current score is 246 to 260. 7 points would put neither of them over the top.

 

[BigSmooth]

I realize that! But if it ends up 271-267 or something, then one state going the other way would have changed things.

 

[Champo41]

<< then one state going the other way would have changed things >>


Hey you figured it out! And if some other state went voted the other way, it'd change things too!

Where exactly does Oregon fit into this statement?

 

[Yeeny]

Actually, alot of those smaller states with the less number of electoral votes are what kept Bush in the running. Every state counts to a degree, unfortunately for Oregon though, right now their votes don't mean anything.

 

[fragarific]

I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN

 

[ViRGE]

I think the delay is in authenticating the last votes. Since a lot of ballots were dropped off on the 7th, the elections comission is probably still checking the sigs on some of them. As for our votes; yes, we didn't count for much this year. It's all part of the penelty for being a smaller west-coast state.