See, you stop counting when it looks like the repub is winning, then you count the rest of the ballots and find out how many more votes you need to elect the democrat. Somebody somewhere has to decide how close the count should be and what the final margin will be and then gen-up the needed ballots with an acceptable postmark so it looks legal. Rest assured, the democrat is going to win and the DP will retain control of the Senate. I don't know why we even bother to vote anymore; it isn't who the people vote for that counts, it's the people who count the votes that really matters.