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On the 6th (local time), a poll worker is working on a mail ballot in Clark County, Nevada. AP Yonhap News
The winners of the US presidential elections have not been confirmed until the fourth counting day, the sixth (local time). To date, there are five states that have not yet been defeated. In particular, while the count rates in Nevada and Pennsylvania have already exceeded 90%, questions about why it takes days to count the last percent are also growing.
The Associated Press reported that, to date, there are five states where the match is discovered and, in particular, Nevada is being criticized and ridiculed for excessive delays in the count. This is because Nevada’s count rate is 93%, the lowest among the rest of the states, and the results are not expected to come out anytime soon.
Jennifer Russell, a spokeswoman for the Nevada secretary of state, said: “First, we told everyone that the results could take at least ten days.” This means that if the result of the vote is delayed, it may not be published until the 12th.
The main reason for the delay in the count is voting by mail. In Nevada, as of tonight, 124,000 votes have yet to be counted, half of which are by mail and the rest are provisional (to determine if they are valid later).
In Nevada, the deadline for receiving the ballot by mail is November 10, seven days after the presidential election. The counting process is also time consuming. Of the uncounted volume, 90% belongs to Clark County, and this district includes densely populated areas like Las Vegas, and the counting process is carried out two or three times.
First, Clark County authorities explained that the raw table is divided into several items and then each item is checked step by step. In the case of a mail ballot, the signature must first be verified, once the vote is passed through a machine to verify it, and if the ballot is not made by the machine, the accountant manually verifies each one.
It then checks if the number of votes that have been verified is the same as the number of votes that have come in and then counts the candidates. In fact, as of the 5th, the number of votes that required signature verification reached 44,000 and 2,100 tickets were needed to confirm the number, the Associated Press reported. In particular, during this process, the counting agents contact voters to verify the validity of the votes again, and time is delayed, AP analyzed.
On the 6th (local time), the ballots for the United States presidential elections are counted in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Reuters News 1
In the case of Pennsylvania, there is a backlog in Philadelphia, where late-night voting is packed. At first, authorities in Philadelphia announced that they would release the final count the night of the 5th, but until the 6th of the next day, the count rate is 96%. According to CNN, to date, 20,000 of the mail-in ballots and 15,000 to 20,000 of the provisional votes are classified as having signature problems or damage, and should undergo review. All of these votes must go through a second round of review, and even three voters are used to review a single vote, resulting in a delay in counting.
Reporter Bae Jae-seong [email protected]
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