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I fully expect the news to lie about the election results including flat out lying about the results reported by polling stations. Where do the news outlets get their data and is there a way for us normal folks to get the number as they are reported by the poll workers?

I fully expect the news to lie about the election results including flat out lying about the results reported by polling stations. Where do the news outlets get their data and is there a way for us normal folks to get the number as they are reported by the poll workers?

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why do we want them from the polls? don't we want the results as they are actually tallied by each precint or county within each state?

each state's secretary of state website, like webofslibe said, will update as votes are counted. here's CA: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/election-2020 they'll add tabs for '2020 presidential' by county, 'statewide initiatives' by county, then 'local'. I'm assuming

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People in the thread seem to not know what the word 'poll' means. When you go to vote you go to your 'polling location'. The word Poll can refer to unofficial 'opinion polls' and 'exit polls' as well as 'official polls'. Opinion pools are when people ask a bunch of folks how they plan to vote in an attempt to predict the election. When people ask folks how they voted after the fact it is an attempt to root out voter fraud (if everyone says they voted for A but the election is called for B then you can suspect somersetting fishy happened) and these are called 'exit polls'. When people count votes and report the numbers this is the official poll results. The word poll simply means 'to collect the opinion'