Elections Systems Utilize Spec Government Network
To anyone with background in an "I'm Special" program of record, it sounds erily like business as usual (don't say anything, just nod your head).
Truthfully, a real-time system similar to what is presented in this article could be inferred just from the refresh rate of election-night publisher-subscriber data streams which major media outlets tap into.
This leads to an undeniable paradox: election-night continuous counting is the fastest it's ever been, approaching real time, but final counts are slower than ever. What took one evening a decade ago, now takes days or weeks.
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