California and New York need to count their votes early

[Ms. Toad]

12. Interim results area generally not known.

Most of the vote processing machines are designed not to tabulate except as a final step of closing the elections - which tabulates the results of the previously scanned ballots.

Most jurisditions allow some sort of pre-processing - from verifying voters and eligibility to vote all the way up to scanning the ballots. I'm pretty sure not a single jurisdiction allows the final step - tabulating the answers. Once any person knows the results, they will leak.

Oregon - it can go all the way through the scanning process. The step remaining for election day is the tabulation step (instantaneous, once all ballots have been scanned and the "close election" button is pressed).