Allie Beth Stuckey

On election night, the polls close at seven o'clock.

And those of you that have read my book know this story already.

And I go into much more detail in the book.

But on election night at seven o'clock, the Republican Party chair of our county will call all of the candidates that are Republican and say,

where you are in the early vote count.

And those were the ones that voted before actual election day and early voting.

And I was down 200 votes after early voting.

Well, the way math works and just statistics work, I knew right then that I was likely to lose that race, even though election day voting hadn't been counted and a lot of the mail ballots had not been counted.

But I knew I knew pretty well for sure that I would lose right then.

And sure enough, I did not overcome that deficit during that during once they counted Election Day voting and mail ballots because it's just very hard.

Usually the percentages don't change very much at all between what happened in early voting and what happens on Election Day and in mail ballots.

So

It's very uncommon, and that's why Ms.

Ramon basically conceded that she wasn't going to be in the runoff.

However, when all these mail-in ballots came in, and the way California does it, they allow

you to send in your mail ballot.

And as long as it's postmarked on election day, they will count it.

And it takes up to seven, eight days to get all the votes counted.

Now, why most other states can count them the same day?

I have no idea.