system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: On Election Night, How Do They Determine Who Has Won A State After Calculating Only 1% Of The State's Votes?

sorry if this has already been asked, but I couldn't find it in the search query.
gpt
Normally they won't call an election won with only 1% of precincts reporting.  It's just an indicator.

Usually, it is known ahead of time how certain counties vote.  They can extrapolate from that how the rest of an election goes, but they won't call an election until a higher % of precincts have reported their results.