As an European, I'm struck by depending on media outlets announcements. Here we have official government committee, which gathers official results from all districts, sums the results and proclaims winner. Does USA have official, federal bureau for election results?
The USA elections are distributed among the state governments, so that the results are dependent on each individual state to properly run the elections. The federal Constitution provides a general framework requiring elections to be held but gives the execution of those elections to be handled by the states governments. There are federal election commissions to gather the results from the states, but it is the sovereign states' responsibility to manage the voting and counting.
Media outlets? (Score:5, Insightful)
As an European, I'm struck by depending on media outlets announcements. Here we have official government committee, which gathers official results from all districts, sums the results and proclaims winner.
Does USA have official, federal bureau for election results?
Re:Media outlets? (Score:5, Informative)