Originally Posted by ironbender
Originally Posted by Bwana_1
For those not listening, it won't effect the election outcome...a 14 point lead with %80 of the vote in = lock in.

Is early voting counted as it comes in and then published? Or, are those ballots held until the polls close?


I'm not an expert on Montana, nor their mail in voting system...but it appears they count votes as they come in.

"a large percentage of those expected to vote have already turned in their ballots.
As of Wednesday night, 259,558 ballots have been returned, said Derek J. Oestreicher, the Director of Elections and Voter Services in the Office of the Montana Secretary of State. That number is of 357,596 absentee ballots sent out, meaning about 73% of absentee ballots are in."