Their affection seem suspicious, incomprehensible and a touch repulsive because at some level this isn't what we're used to. it doesn't tally with our view of ourselves.
So, what election analysts have to do is look beyond the actual number of seats a party won and tally up the number of other seats that are likely to support it.
And it's pretty rare to see any of them. In fact, having done a tour of this lovely parking lot, I found just one American car out of 66. : It tallies with the general stats for the country.
The system can then tally those encrypted votes without ever deciphering them and even more importantly, it means hackers should have a harder time tampering with those votes.
We're going to have to be patient, until we -- the hard work of tallying votes is finished, and it ain't over until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted.
It's extremely important because when Congress needs to tally the electoral votes in January, it must accept the electors certified before this deadline.