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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ddddd, post: 8272980, member: 22377&quot;]I found this...seems like a plausible answer...maybe [USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER] can clarify for us as well.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.quora.com/How-long-did-it-take-to-know-the-result-of-a-presidential-election-in-the-early-1800s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.quora.com/How-long-did-it-take-to-know-the-result-of-a-presidential-election-in-the-early-1800s" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/How-long-did-it-take-to-know-the-result-of-a-presidential-election-in-the-early-1800s</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Dave Cunningham:</p><p>&quot;Each state did its own counting - so there was no delay at that end. The Electors meet in each state capital in December, so no delays there.</p><p><br /></p><p>The state then sends their electoral college count to Congress by early January. Lots of time - no delay. Newspapers knew broadly which states voted for which candidates within a week of the November election, even back in the early 1800s, and by 1848, the East Coast pretty much had telegraph communication, and by late 1861, this extended across the continent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Congress counts the votes in January, and the results would be known essentially immediately. It took several days to notify places far from Washington DC, but the answer was simple:</p><p><br /></p><p>Inauguration Day was on March 4! This allowed a delegation from Congress to notify the new President-Elect in person. (the January 20th date was first used in 1937)</p><p><br /></p><p>In a couple of elections (notably 1800) the Congress did have to resolve an Electoral College tie between Jefferson and Burr in 1801, and in the Hayes-Tilden Election of 1876, Congress established an “Electoral Commission” as the Electoral College results were contested.</p><p><br /></p><p>And we did it all in a timely fashion without the Internet.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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