When will we know results?

When will we know the results of this year's presidential election? Technically speaking, the election actually takes place next year. What about November's general election? Probably never.


During the last election, I actually watched the news for the results. Our state was handed to Barack Obama without a single vote being counted.

News networks want to get you the results as soon as they feel comfortable with the probabilities. This way, they can make a big night out of the event. To make this happen, they take shortcuts. They declare projected winners of states based primarily on exit polls.

If our corrupt media is to be believed, it's exit poll results that elect our president, not the actual votes. If they didn't take this approach, everyone else would know the winners before an honorable source could report them. It turns out that this would not benefit their bottom line.

The media at least tries to be cautious. They target high probabilities before they declare projected winners. The problem that I have is that it is nearly impossible to find the official results. By that, I mean actual votes. Those of us who believe in legitimacy over the speed of the results have nowhere to turn.

I will not be tuning in to election-day coverage. I find the media's handling of the day to be insulting. I would much rather wait a few days for the real results. Unfortunately, I still don't know where to find those results.

To complicate things, I am willing to acknowledge that this will not be the actual presidential election. Instead, we are voting for electors. While I could go into a separate rant about how our biggest vote of the year has us voting for people whose names we do not know, I would rather point out more missing coverage.

We do not vote for our president. That is the job of the electors. The votes will be counted next year, and that is when we will finally determine who our next president will be. We generally know who will win ahead of time since faithless voters are rare, but results can't be certain prior to that point.

The media misrepresents our election of our electors and turns it into an enormous story. When our president is elected, they ignore it. I may be among the minority here, but I feel that electing a president is more significant than electing electors.