Back in my day

Someone doesn't know history

What? When?

Up until 1996.
Starting in November of 2000, that all changed when election-denier Al Gore started this snowball rolling, followed by John Kerry in 2004, and followed by Hillary in 2016.
Cemented in 2018 when the truth came out that it wa the Hillary campaign that colluded with Russia with the help of the US State Department, FBI, and the CIA to game the outcome of that election.

Now, no one trusts the outcomes of elections.

That’s what and when, Skeezeeks.

No.

The elections may have been CALLED the same night, but that's ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS been done by statistical projection from the count so far.

Up until 2000, this usually worked, because once you hit 95% confidence that your statistical projection was accurate, the races weren't really close enough that the 5% inaccuracies would catch you out.

The reason they couldn't do that in 2000 because, uniquely, the statistical projections set up a situation where the outcome came down to Florida's outcome - which is notoriously slow and dysfunctional. Florida's history of long count times go back long before the 90's - it just didn't affect the projections until that night.

So when Fox News called the election for George Bush, they rushed it. THEY were the ones making a mistake. Because it was the first time, ever, that it was actually important to wait for Florida to finish counting.

It wasn't that long ago and I don't know why you think you get to rewrite this part of history.