AP’s crucial role: Counting votes and calling winners on election night
On election day, thousands of vote-count reporters from the Associated Press fan out across the US.
News operations around the world rely on AP to tally votes and call the winners in thousands of national, state and local races.
Al Jazeera’s Cyril Vanier spoke to AP’s vice president, David Scott, about what the team does on election night and how it works.
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