who said that the vote counting is over ? how was that detrmined

[AllaN01Bear]

news media says that the dems lost by a narrow margin. i thought all ballots count . im venting here .

[onenote]

1. Did you have a problem when races were called in favor of Democrats?

The way it was determined that the repubs won 218 seats was the same way 200+ races have been called for Democrats.

[LakeArenal]

4. It's just a question. We were told counting occurs until up to Saturday

[Amishman]

9. It's math

X vote gap.
Y votes remaining.
Z likely D vote share.

If Y times Z does not come at all close to X, it can safely be said it is over.

The votes still count, there is just no longer a reasonable probability of changing the outcome.

[LakeArenal]

10. Wow...

[ColinC]

6. We are all beginning the stages of grief

…starting with denial. I’m pretty much still there -hoping that there can be a glimmer of hope in the large swath’s of ballots left to count.

[W_HAMILTON]

2. They are being based on projections, not necessarily the final official vote count.

[LeftInTX]

3. It's called when the number of outstanding ballots cannot support one of the candidates.

[doc03]

5. I saw a Trumpster on Fox today complaining about the

slow counting. Then in next breath he wants eliminate
computers and go to paper ballots. Does that make sense?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

7. I remember back about 16 years ago...

When Democrats wanted to do away with computers and hand-count paper ballots.

[doc03]

8. Yep they did. They said the Diebold machines were rigged in Ohio I believe. nt

[AZSkiffyGeek]

11. I wonder where those black-box vote people are now? nt