<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ianai</author><text>Apparently Florida should be ready for pandemic adjustments to polling and still report nearly all of their results on election night. They’ve switched to mostly mail in ballots years ago and I think even count them as they come in or something - so they can be reported election night. Granted, it’s Florida. So sanity need not apply and we could get their election results from the SCOTUS.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I hope the early, in person voting decides the election on election night.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>&amp;gt; election night, as state results come in.&lt;p&gt;Not this year. With mail-in ballots, the ballots won&amp;#x27;t necessarily be finalized until a week or more after the election.&lt;p&gt;Its necessary due to COVID19. But it will be until multiple days after the election before we know the true winner. A large number of states will certainly be called on election night (because many states, such as California, are far from competitive).&lt;p&gt;But the battleground states may take some time.</text></item><item><author>DennisP</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s going to be a fun toy on election night, as state results come in.</text></item><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Another similar tool, with very different visualization.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;projects.fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;trump-biden-election-map&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;projects.fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;trump-biden-election-ma...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electoral College Decision Tree</title><url>https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/electoral-college-decision-tree</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Not necessarily.   There are several paths where a Biden win could be called early on election night.   For example, Texas has a large fraction of early voting and a small fraction of mail ballots.  So the chance that Texas can be called early is quite high.   And if Texas gets called for Biden, then the networks will call the entire country for Biden.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>&amp;gt; election night, as state results come in.&lt;p&gt;Not this year. With mail-in ballots, the ballots won&amp;#x27;t necessarily be finalized until a week or more after the election.&lt;p&gt;Its necessary due to COVID19. But it will be until multiple days after the election before we know the true winner. A large number of states will certainly be called on election night (because many states, such as California, are far from competitive).&lt;p&gt;But the battleground states may take some time.</text></item><item><author>DennisP</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s going to be a fun toy on election night, as state results come in.</text></item><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Another similar tool, with very different visualization.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;projects.fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;trump-biden-election-map&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;projects.fivethirtyeight.com&amp;#x2F;trump-biden-election-ma...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electoral College Decision Tree</title><url>https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/electoral-college-decision-tree</url></story>