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As the US elections slowly come to a conclusion, one of the areas of confusion is that different media outlets are showing different results for electoral votes.
The president is elected by winning at least 270 electoral college votes, not the result of the popular vote. Because there is no centralized federal electoral system, it has become a tradition in the United States for the “decision desks” of media organizations to claim that states have been won by one candidate or another when they have been won. counted enough votes. States that are too close to call, like Nevada and Georgia right now, remain in the balance until a network “calls” them.
The Guardian uses data collected and analyzed by the Associated Press (AP) news agency as a source for when we will call up the election results. There are several other highly reputable election decision desks in the American media, including NBC, Fox News, and others. They can call races before or after AP. American networks obviously use decisions from their own desks; other channels may choose to follow one or wait for two desktops to call a state before counting it.
This year, Arizona has demonstrated this in great relief. Our current total of 264 electoral votes for Joe Biden includes the fact that the AP has called Arizona for the Democratic nominee. Not all decision-making desks have done it yet.
AP has published this guide for every state it has called. Here’s what it says about Arizona:
The AP called the race at 2.50 a.m. EST Wednesday, after an analysis of ballots cast across the state concluded there were not enough pending to allow Trump to catch up. With 80% of the expected votes counted, Biden was ahead by 5 percentage points, leading about 130,000 votes over Trump, with approximately 2.6 million ballots counted. The remaining ballots that remained to be counted, including the mail-in ballots in Maricopa County, where Biden performed excellently, weren’t enough for Trump to catch up with the former vice president.
The Trump campaign disagrees. Biden’s lead is currently down to about 68,000 votes in the state, or less than three percentage points, with 88% of votes counted.
