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4. They wait to count because many villages without roads need time to deliver votes

Reply to UpInArms (Original post)

Sat Nov 7, 2020, 10:16 AM

Nov 2020

If you live in Lake Minchumina, population 12, it takes some time to get the records to civilization.

When I lived in Alaska in 1964 there were only 900 miles of paved roads in the state. And it’s a big state. My borough, or county, was bigger than Texas, for instance.

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