What's a 'red' and 'blue mirage,' and how election night vote counts make it hard to tell who will win

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  How votes get counted and reported on election night — and how NBC News gathers and checks the data

  Top stories - NBC News - October 18
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  Expert previews potential Election Day 'mirages' we might see as votes are counted

  Top stories - ABC News - 4 days ago

• Was your ballot received and counted? How to check your 2024 election vote

  Top stories - CBS News - 2 days ago
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  How small shifts in who turns out to vote could make the difference in the election

  Politics - NBC News - Yesterday
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  Some states make major changes to speed up Election Day vote count

  Politics - NBC News - October 19
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  Election fact check: How voting machines work and why they're hard to hack

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  Vance says Trump campaign 'can make a good case to women,' but won't tell them how to vote

  Politics - The Hill - October 27
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  What weeks of early-voting data tell us about how Democrats and Republicans are turning out in 2024

  Politics - NBC News - October 17
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  What to look for on US election night

  Business - Financial Times - 8 hours ago
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  ‘You stole the election’: Nervous volunteers on frontline of conspiracies

  Top stories - BBC News - October 17
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  What is the 'blue wall' and what does it mean for 2024 election?

  Politics - The Hill - October 16
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  Trump tells ABC he expects a winner to be declared election night

  Top stories - ABC News - 23 hours ago
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  How immigrants who just became US citizens plan to vote in the 2024 election

  Top stories - ABC News - 3 days ago
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  What You Might Know (and Not Know) on Election Night

  Top stories - The New York Times - 6 days ago
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  What we learned as Warriors' red-hot shooting propels preseason win

  Sports - Yahoo Sports - October 14
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  No, Vote Spikes on Election Night Do Not Indicate Voter Fraud

  Tech - The New York Times - 2 days ago
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  There’s One Main Culprit if Donald Trump Wins

  Top stories - The New York Times - October 22

• What the polls can’t tell us about America’s election

  World - Financial Times - October 26

• Georgia judge blocks election rule requiring hand-counting ballots as early voting begins

  Top stories - CBS News - October 16
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  Why we probably won’t know who the next president is on election night

  Politics - The Hill - 1 hour ago
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  2024 election updates: Harris joins 'SNL,' Trump says he's 'father of fertilization'

  Top stories - ABC News - Yesterday
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  14 days until the election... Who's winning?

  Top stories - BBC News - October 21
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  U.S.-China relations expected to be strained no matter who wins the White House

  Top stories - NBC News - October 22
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  The 2024 presidential election will be historic no matter who wins

  Top stories - ABC News - 19 hours ago

• Voters who helped Biden win in 2020 share why they will not vote for Harris

  Top stories - CBS News - 5 days ago
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  What if Texas goes blue?

  Politics - The Hill - October 28
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  'It makes me want to vote': Breaking down the impact of celebrity election endorsements

  Politics - NBC News - 6 days ago
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  Why Pennsylvania’s unusual voting laws make it ripe for rigged election claims

  Politics - NBC News - Yesterday
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  Jennifer Lopez campaigns with Harris in Las Vegas, as Donald Trump is joined by Tucker Carlson at Arizona rally – live

  World - The Guardian - 3 days ago

• Like Michigan, the US is neither red nor blue

  World - Financial Times - 5 days ago

• How The Times’s Home Page Comes Together on Election Night

  Business - The New York Times - 4 days ago
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  Trump has made gains with Latino men — why they're voting red and how Harris is addressing it

  Top stories - NBC News - October 25
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  No, Counting Votes for Several Days Is Not a Sign of Fraud

  Business - The New York Times - 5 days ago
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  WATCH: How Harris or Trump could win 270 electoral votes

  Top stories - ABC News - 3 days ago
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  What Biden and Trump’s Nominees for Federal Judges Could Tell Us About the Election

  Top stories - The New York Times - October 24

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  Business - MarketWatch - 5 days ago

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