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  • Oct 16, 2024
  • Oct 16, 2024 Updated Oct 25, 2024
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The Associated Press has been counting the vote in US elections since 1848, and today it is a massive operation. The AP will send out about 4000 people on Election Day to all of the counties and townships around the country where officials are counting the vote. They will collect those results, and they will call those results in to about 800 people who will be taking those calls and entering them into the AP system.

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