Democratic Grand Finale Tuesday results thread (1st polls close @8pm ET)

[Crumpets]

Live feed of Sanders's speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWIbCtz_Xwk

[Wisconsin+17]

Montana, Bernie lead holding.

[NOVA Green]

CA has been stuck at 33% reporting for a while now. Is this really all we're getting tonight? That's annoying.

Now idea, but times like this makes really hate vote by mail elections, regardless of how much it makes it easier for voters to actually vote. Not a big fan of states not counting votes for days and weeks....

[ProudModerate2]

Wow.
Unless the numbers change quite dramatically, Hillary is going to have a (way) better-than-expected win in California.
She is leading with a diff of approx. +25% and 17% counted.
That is a big lead !

[Seriously?]

CA has been stuck at 33% reporting for a while now. Is this really all we're getting tonight? That's annoying.

It's California. They are always terrible at reporting election day votes there. It'll be 4 am (East Coast time) and they'll still not be close to completely done (especially in San Fran, Oakland (Alameda) and LA Counties).

Biggest thing is no exit poll. If there was one, this would have been called for Hillary! a long time ago.

[Green Line]

The way in which California counts their votes is a disgrace to the country.  It's unacceptable that a significant number of votes will still be trickling in for days to come.  Why can they not count the votes on the night of the election?  It has never obviously had a big effect on the Presidential races because California is never close, but still, it's ridiculous.

[Wisconsin+17]

Meh. CA is over.

MT is still undecided. Bernie is starting to pull away, but only has a nominal lead.

[sportydude]

Clinton seven-digit number now.

[Dr. Arch]

I honestly don't think Bernie can close a 400,000 vote lead. They should probably call it.

[NOVA Green]

The way in which California counts their votes is a disgrace to the country.  It's unacceptable that a significant number of votes will still be trickling in for days to come.  Why can they not count the votes on the night of the election?  It has never obviously had a big effect on the Presidential races because California is never close, but still, it's ridiculous.

Totally agreed... I live on the West Coast, and I very much doubt we will get 50% in before I go to bed, and they will start counting again tomorrow and margins will narrow significantly. Then I will go to bed tomorrow night, and we will have 55-58% of the results in, even though election officials have no idea of how many votes are yet to be counted, etc....

Election night in Oregon was up 6% and then it took almost was week before it was a 10% margin and then now a 15% margin.

Vote by Mail totally sucks when it comes to actually counting election votes, especially when you have states that allow mail-in-ballots to be counted days after the election so long as they are received and postmarked by the deadline.

[Xing]

I think we can pretty safely call CA for Clinton, and MT for Sanders. I want to relish my last win as a Sanders supporter, but once MT is called for him, I'll be changing my banner.

[Green Line]

The way in which California counts their votes is a disgrace to the country.  It's unacceptable that a significant number of votes will still be trickling in for days to come.  Why can they not count the votes on the night of the election?  It has never obviously had a big effect on the Presidential races because California is never close, but still, it's ridiculous.

Totally agreed... I live on the West Coast, and I very much doubt we will get 50% in before I go to bed, and they will start counting again tomorrow and margins will narrow significantly. Then I will go to bed tomorrow night, and we will have 55-58% of the results in, even though election officials have no idea of how many votes are yet to be counted, etc....

Election night in Oregon was up 6% and then it took almost was week before it was a 10% margin and then now a 15% margin.

Vote by Mail totally sucks when it comes to actually counting election votes, especially when you have states that allow mail-in-ballots to be counted days after the election so long as they are received and postmarked by the deadline.

I'm totally against vote-by-mail to begin with, but if they're going to have it, at least have the cutoff date be like 5 days before the election or something.  If you don't have it in the mail 5 days before the election you have to vote in person.  It's ridiculous that so many people likely just mailed their ballots yesterday.

[RI]

South Dakota has finished counting. Final margin is Clinton 51.03-48.97

[Wisconsin+17]

Bernie less than .74 of a percent away from a real lead now in MT. MT still TCTC

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

24% in for CA, Clinton up 61.6-37.3. Sanders up 49.5-46.0 with 46% in for MT.

[IceSpear]

I wonder why they're not calling CA. The margin will obviously narrow significantly, but it would take an act of god for him to overtake her.

[Gass3268]

The way in which California counts their votes is a disgrace to the country.  It's unacceptable that a significant number of votes will still be trickling in for days to come.  Why can they not count the votes on the night of the election?  It has never obviously had a big effect on the Presidential races because California is never close, but still, it's ridiculous.

Totally agreed... I live on the West Coast, and I very much doubt we will get 50% in before I go to bed, and they will start counting again tomorrow and margins will narrow significantly. Then I will go to bed tomorrow night, and we will have 55-58% of the results in, even though election officials have no idea of how many votes are yet to be counted, etc....

Election night in Oregon was up 6% and then it took almost was week before it was a 10% margin and then now a 15% margin.

Vote by Mail totally sucks when it comes to actually counting election votes, especially when you have states that allow mail-in-ballots to be counted days after the election so long as they are received and postmarked by the deadline.

I'm totally against vote-by-mail to begin with, but if they're going to have it, at least have the cutoff date be like 5 days before the election or something.  If you don't have it in the mail 5 days before the election you have to vote in person.  It's ridiculous that so many people likely just mailed their ballots yesterday.

People in California can still mail in ballots today as long as it is postmarked by midnight.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

The way in which California counts their votes is a disgrace to the country.  It's unacceptable that a significant number of votes will still be trickling in for days to come.  Why can they not count the votes on the night of the election?  It has never obviously had a big effect on the Presidential races because California is never close, but still, it's ridiculous.

Totally agreed... I live on the West Coast, and I very much doubt we will get 50% in before I go to bed, and they will start counting again tomorrow and margins will narrow significantly. Then I will go to bed tomorrow night, and we will have 55-58% of the results in, even though election officials have no idea of how many votes are yet to be counted, etc....

Election night in Oregon was up 6% and then it took almost was week before it was a 10% margin and then now a 15% margin.

Vote by Mail totally sucks when it comes to actually counting election votes, especially when you have states that allow mail-in-ballots to be counted days after the election so long as they are received and postmarked by the deadline.

I'm totally against vote-by-mail to begin with, but if they're going to have it, at least have the cutoff date be like 5 days before the election or something.  If you don't have it in the mail 5 days before the election you have to vote in person.  It's ridiculous that so many people likely just mailed their ballots yesterday.

People in California can still mail in ballots today as long as it is postmarked by midnight.

Whaaa?

Source?  Is California the only state that has that?

[ProudModerate2]

I think we can pretty safely call CA for Clinton, and MT for Sanders. I want to relish my last win as a Sanders supporter, but once MT is called for him, I'll be changing my banner.

I hope you are not changing it to Little-Hands-Drumpf-Fuhrer.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

No exit poll. Yeah, the margin has been pretty steady throughout the count, but the networks aren't comfortable with assuming much when they have no metric to measure the remaining 75% of the vote by.

[Wisconsin+17]

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They need to study statistics. Bah. At least my model cranked out another win on SD today

[Gass3268]

The way in which California counts their votes is a disgrace to the country.  It's unacceptable that a significant number of votes will still be trickling in for days to come.  Why can they not count the votes on the night of the election?  It has never obviously had a big effect on the Presidential races because California is never close, but still, it's ridiculous.

Totally agreed... I live on the West Coast, and I very much doubt we will get 50% in before I go to bed, and they will start counting again tomorrow and margins will narrow significantly. Then I will go to bed tomorrow night, and we will have 55-58% of the results in, even though election officials have no idea of how many votes are yet to be counted, etc....

Election night in Oregon was up 6% and then it took almost was week before it was a 10% margin and then now a 15% margin.

Vote by Mail totally sucks when it comes to actually counting election votes, especially when you have states that allow mail-in-ballots to be counted days after the election so long as they are received and postmarked by the deadline.

I'm totally against vote-by-mail to begin with, but if they're going to have it, at least have the cutoff date be like 5 days before the election or something.  If you don't have it in the mail 5 days before the election you have to vote in person.  It's ridiculous that so many people likely just mailed their ballots yesterday.

People in California can still mail in ballots today as long as it is postmarked by midnight.

Whaaa?

Source?  Is California the only state that has that?

It's what they said on MSNBC. There is a reason that multiple counties flipped for Obama weeks after election day in 2012.

[Xing]

I think we can pretty safely call CA for Clinton, and MT for Sanders. I want to relish my last win as a Sanders supporter, but once MT is called for him, I'll be changing my banner.

I hope you are not changing it to Little-Hands-Drumpf-Fuhrer.

I want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT!

...................

Which would never happen with President Little Donny. Relax, I've said for months that I'll support Clinton if she wins.

[NOVA Green]

The way in which California counts their votes is a disgrace to the country.  It's unacceptable that a significant number of votes will still be trickling in for days to come.  Why can they not count the votes on the night of the election?  It has never obviously had a big effect on the Presidential races because California is never close, but still, it's ridiculous.

Totally agreed... I live on the West Coast, and I very much doubt we will get 50% in before I go to bed, and they will start counting again tomorrow and margins will narrow significantly. Then I will go to bed tomorrow night, and we will have 55-58% of the results in, even though election officials have no idea of how many votes are yet to be counted, etc....

Election night in Oregon was up 6% and then it took almost was week before it was a 10% margin and then now a 15% margin.

Vote by Mail totally sucks when it comes to actually counting election votes, especially when you have states that allow mail-in-ballots to be counted days after the election so long as they are received and postmarked by the deadline.

I'm totally against vote-by-mail to begin with, but if they're going to have it, at least have the cutoff date be like 5 days before the election or something.  If you don't have it in the mail 5 days before the election you have to vote in person.  It's ridiculous that so many people likely just mailed their ballots yesterday.

Well in Oregon, we can always drop our ballots in one of the boxes located conveniently around and so long as it is before poll closing time on election day (8 PM PST) or the ballot is received by election day through the US Mail, the votes will be counted.

Personally, I think that California and Washington State make the system a bit too convoluted and actually depress overall voter turnout, even though Oregon has a closed primary voters tend to switch party registration 30 days before the election if they are Indies and want to vote Dem or Rep for the primaries....

Still VbM totally blows chunks when it comes to actual vote counting, and especially when there are competitive statewide or local elections....

[ProudModerate2]

I think we can pretty safely call CA for Clinton, and MT for Sanders. I want to relish my last win as a Sanders supporter, but once MT is called for him, I'll be changing my banner.

I hope you are not changing it to Little-Hands-Drumpf-Fuhrer.

I want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT!

...................

Which would never happen with President Little Donny. Relax, I've said for months that I'll support Clinton if she wins.

8-)