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The winner of the United States presidential election has not been confirmed until the sixth (local time), the fourth day of the count, and the attention of the United States and the world is focused on the counting process of the states that have not yet come out, like Nevada and Pennsylvania.
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| Citizens are watching the news related to the US presidential elections in the waiting room of Seoul Station on the 6th. Yunhap news |
In these states, even though the count rate has already exceeded 90%, questions are growing as to why it takes days to count the last percent.
To date, there are around 5 states where the game is not covered. In particular, the Associated Press reported that Nevada is being criticized and ridiculed for excessive billing delays.
Nevada’s vote is 93%, the lowest among the rest of the states.
Jennifer Russell, a spokeswoman for the Nevada secretary of state, said: “First, we told everyone that the results could take at least ten days.”
According to these words, it means that the game can only be decided on the 12th.
The main reason for the delay in the recount is that there are many votes in the 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, considering the Corona 19 crisis, voting by mail was prepared and the deadline for voting by mail was set on November 10, 7 days after the presidential election.
Also, the counting process is 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.
Then, after confirming that the number of votes verified in this way is equal to the number of tickets that arrived, the task of counting which candidate is addressed is performed.
In the case of Pennsylvania, there is a backlog in Philadelphia, where late-night voting is packed.
Philadelphia officials initially announced that they would release the final count on the night of the 5th, but the count rate has been hovering around 96% through the 6th.
According to the CNN broadcast, to date, 20,000 of the postal ballots and 15,000 to 20,000 of the provisional votes are classified as having signature problems or damage and should be reviewed.
All of these “problem” votes must go through a second round of review, and even the “late count” is due to the fact that three counting agents are used to review a single vote.
Reporter Kwon Young-mi [email protected]
