2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo how is the state able to report Democratic results Twice as fast as Republican votes?
30% reporting for Democratic votes, 12% for Republican race.
IamMab
(1,359 posts)We're everywhere.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)I've been watching the totals on the NYT website and the numbers in the 5 boroughs are coming in extremely fast. The other areas reporting like we normally see with the elections. It's really weird.
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results
dsc
(52,162 posts)and NYC is so Democratic that it has only about 13% of the GOP vote in New York State. Conversely the city has a very high proportion (about 60%) of the Democratic vote in New York State.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)The state counts both at the same time.
dsc
(52,162 posts)counties do. Some counties count fast and others not so much. Urban centers often count fast while rural counties count slower. One reason is that rural counties are often larger in area and count in one place.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)In this case electronically. And you are wrong. Larger population centers typically take longer to count.
dsc
(52,162 posts)clearly the numbers in this case are coming in from NYC.