I can has results reporting time now?

[fencer_x]

It's almost 8 AM here, WHERE IS MY PRESIDENT? >(

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[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

it's going to take agesssssssssss :(

[fencer-x.livejournal.com]

well, really it's going to take 10 more minutes, because polls start closing at 6 PM eastern time :P

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

ah true :P but doesn't counting take a long time? .__.

[fencer-x.livejournal.com]

It's...electronic? XD;;;;

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

ah. HK still uses paper ballots, so... XD

[fencer-x.livejournal.com]

Aah XD Well we had a small problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_US_election) a few years back with paper ballots -- everything this year was touch-screen voting, so results from the states that close their polls at 6 will be out probably almost instantly :)

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

ohhh :D *waits for kentucky results*

[beatrizbear]

You turn in paper ballots, but the machine reads the markings left by your pencil, which is why they ask you use pencil. Just like how teachers put the scantrons from your exams into a machine and it prints your scores out on them. So even if the ballots are on paper, a machine reads them. At least I assume that's how because in the primaries when I turned in my ballot, it got sucked into a machine.

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

heheh ^___^;;; iirc, in HK you get a piece of paper and a stamp and you need to stamp this circle next to the person you vote for. then people go count them manually :P it's a really different system since we can't vote for the CE >__>

[beatrizbear]

I'm from Texas and they're pretty hardcore about the voting. I didn't get to go to the polls for the election, but I went for the primary. I had to send in an absentee ballot because I'm in Boston for school right now. Everyone's nuts for the election here as much as in Texas! It's exciting.

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

everyone in HK wants to vote, but can't really vote XD

[cavechan.livejournal.com]

=-=.... Where I voted we had these markers to connect the arrows and then they got put into the machine. Special markers? o_O

[beatrizbear]

Polls close in two minutes. I'm in Boston and still waiting the results.

[jazzy-peaches.livejournal.com]

lol are you serious? election results always take all night. and depending on how close it is, they might not even announce it tonight.

[jubeichan.livejournal.com]

Eh? It's only 6pm on the east cost, we still have to wait for hawaii and there are the absentee ballots to be counted. We might not even know until tomorrow especially if there are any fuck ups.

[beatrizbear]

But I want to know nooooow. D:

[feyla.livejournal.com]

from what I'm seeing on the news it's going to take all night..and then some

[fencer-x.livejournal.com]

...yeah I don't think people really got that this post was more of a, "omg yay I can't wait for results~~~" thing than, "No seriously dude, where are the results?" _o_

[rikunghts.livejournal.com]

Um... CT isn't even done voting yet.

[fencer-x.livejournal.com]

...yeah, I know that. It wasn't a serious post, like I've been putting up above :/

[shaggydizbot101.livejournal.com]

Pennsylvania doesn't close for another 75 minutes. I'll be waiting all night for this to end as well.

[beatrizbear]

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/

[beatrizbear]

Oh! Polls will be closing soon! Obama in the lead!