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China News Service, Washington, November 4. Title: Decoding the 2020 US General Election – General Election Result Not Released “On Time”. The electoral situation has increased uncertainty
China News Agency Reporter Sha Hanting
The results of the 2020 US presidential elections were generally not announced in the early hours of the day after Election Day. As of 5:00 pm on the 4th, the elections of many key “undecided states” are still at a standstill, and the general election results remain “undecided.”
Affected by the new corona pneumonia epidemic this year, the number of voters who chose to vote early before Election Day has increased significantly. According to statistics from the “US Election Plan” website, there were more than 101 million early voters in the 2020 general election, of which more than 65 million were votes sent by mail, a record.
To ensure that mailed ballots are counted, many states in the United States have issued regulations that establish a “grace period” for mailed ballots based on the time the ballot is postmarked rather than the time of arrival, including the “undecided states” of Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Also, the vote counting process for mailed ballots is more complicated than ballots in place, and additional links, such as opening the envelope and checking if it is valid, etc., take much longer than voting in the place.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolfe held a press conference on the same day and declared that Pennsylvania received more than 3 million votes by mail this year, more than 10 times the previous election. Therefore, “unlike in the past, results will be delayed and there may be no results today.”
Another “swing state,” Michigan Secretary of State Benson, stated that the state “will get a basically comprehensive election” later on the 4th. The counting of votes in other “swing states” of Nevada, Georgia and North Carolina is still ongoing.
Data Map: US President Trump.
The Republican presidential candidate and president of the United States, Trump, said in the White House that morning: “It is clear that I have won.” He also asked that the vote count be stopped, otherwise he would go to the Federal Supreme Court.
In response, Democratic presidential candidate Biden’s campaign called Trump’s comments “infuriating, unprecedented and incorrect.” Dylan, the manager of Biden’s campaign team, said that if Trump goes to court, Biden’s legal team “will wait any minute.”
In this general election, as of 5:00 p.m. on the 4th, neither Trump nor Biden have obtained the 270 electoral votes required for president-elect, but Biden leads the way in the number of electoral votes. In the “transition states” of Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and North Carolina, the gap between the two sides is about 1 percentage point.
Faced with the election stalemate, the Trump campaign said on April 4 that it had filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania, demanding that the vote count be suspended before tighter oversight of the counting process. Additionally, Trump’s team also requested a recount in Wisconsin.
Biden said at a press conference that afternoon, “Every vote must be counted.” He also said, “I think when all the votes are counted, I will be the winner.”
In the history of American elections, there have been rare cases of delayed results and disputes in the counting of votes. The most recent was in the 2000 presidential election.
At the time, the votes of the Republican presidential candidate Bush and the Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore were very close, and the votes of Florida will determine the final outcome of the two. In the results of the second automatic ballot announced by Florida, Bush won with an advantage of less than 0.5% and only a few hundred votes. In this regard, Gore requested a manual recount, to which Bush objected. After 36 days of dispute between the two parties, the Federal Supreme Court ruled to stop the count. Bush won the elections.
In this general election, due to the stalemate in multi-state elections, the US media believes that in the end a state with only a few thousand or even hundreds of votes will determine the outcome of the election, and Trump’s demand will also add uncertainty to the outcome of the elections. Sex. (End up)
