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Georgia, etc.
Delayed count
Max Warfront Pennsylvania
The final decision can take days.
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The United States presidential elections held on the 3rd (local time) were conducted as a sweaty match until the last minute, which was largely influenced by the fact that the results of the count in the most competitive states such as Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin all showed up and down patterns.
Also, unsurprisingly, as the count of some contestants was delayed, the victory of the US presidential election fell into a labyrinth on the morning of the 4th, the following day. Even at the beginning of the count, the prevalence over President Donald Trump has been reversed and uncertainty has increased. Pennsylvania, one of the largest battlefields, will likely take days to determine the final winner by mail ballot.
Before the presidential elections, local foreign media predicted that the end of the count was likely to be delayed due to increased voting by mail. This year, when elections were held amid the new coronavirus (Corona 19) infection pandemic, mail-in votes increased significantly. According to the election information site ‘US Election Project’, the total number of votes prior to 7 a. Among them, 3,592,033,053 voted on the site and 6,524,687 voted by mail.
The number of pre-voting votes is the highest ever, exceeding 70% of the total number of votes in the 2016 presidential election. In particular, in the case of voting by mail, it takes longer to count the ballots than votes in place, as the counting agents must open the envelope and remove the vote-by-mail ballot and verify that the voter’s signature is correct.
In fact, in Georgia, in-place votes in rural areas, where President Trump’s base of support is large, were counted early, while mail-in votes were delayed. Additionally, the number of votes was delayed because the Atlanta State Farm Arena water pipes, which holds all absentee ballots from Fulton County in Atlanta, burst on Election Day. In Gwinnett County in East Atlanta, the counting software, which was supposed to count 80,000 votes by mail, was down. Furthermore, in Nevada, where 86% of ballots were counted, it was announced that it would not reveal the results of the additional count until 12 p.m. on the 5th, causing the hearts of Americans to eagerly await the election results. In North Carolina, Trump (50.1%) was 1.4 percentage points ahead of Joe Biden (48.7%) in the 95% count situation, but President Trump failed to declare victory there. This is because all mail ballots arriving before the 12th are considered valid.
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The day after the election, in Georgia and other Gyeonghap states, the election leaned toward candidate Biden in the last minute of the vote count, showing a premarital appearance, and the game produced a close-up tight appearance, repeating a change before the change. According to the New York Times (NYT), with 92% of the votes counted in Georgia at 7 a.m. on the 4th, President Trump and 50.5% of President Biden were hunted by just 2.2 percentage points with a 48.3%. In Wisconsin, which is a Rustbelt, candidate Biden reversed President Trump by a slight margin. At one point, President Trump outscored Biden by 4.0 percentage points, which was overturned when the count reached the last minute. Foreign media analyzed that candidate Biden had overtaken President Trump because the count of big cities like Milwaukee was delayed. The state of Michigan, which emerged as the most important party of the day, also overturned President Trump’s victory in the middle and directed a drama in which candidate Biden achieves a last-minute reversal of the count.
In the state of Pennsylvania, which is a concern of the US, uncertainty is expected to increase due to the possibility of legal battles. The Democratic Party voted for a preliminary vote by mail and President Trump announced that he would immortalize the lawsuit. Regarding the Pennsylvania recount, candidate Biden said that day: “The recount process will take time. But we will win. ”The state of Pennsylvania, with 20 electoral votes, has decided to accept mail-in ballots that arrive on the 6th as valid. President Trump took the initiative by combining mail-in votes and in-place votes from Pennsylvania until Election Day, but the problem is likely to be exacerbated if Pennsylvania’s results change after mail ballots are counted and affect the results of the majority of the electoral body (270 people). In this situation, it is The Trump camp is likely to challenge mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. In fact, President Trump has repeatedly argued that voting by mail is “fraud.”
The Associated Press reported that only six states in the race, including Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, predicted based on past statistics, and 185,000 to 292,000 mail-in votes were invalidated in this presidential election due to delays. on the arrival and omission of signatures. He said he could get out. This is up to three times more than 87,000 votes in the 2016 presidential election.
/ Reporter Kihyuk Kim [email protected]
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