If the presidential election ends in a tie, then what? The winner might not even be 1 of the 2 people who tied for the most votes.
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Hand-counting every ballot might sound like a great idea, but it’s both slower and less accurate than machine-counting votes.
As vote counts tick upward, people may have questions about why one candidate does better with mail-in votes or in-person ballots. Here are the answers, and an explanation of how the counting happens.
What did this year’s election maps rightly or wrongly tell us?
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Professor of Mathematics, Director of Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, Wellesley College
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Political Science and Director of the Elections Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Assistant Professor in Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
