11/04/2020 10:44
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Updated 11/04/2020 10:44
Counting each of the votes that arrive in the mail is
essential
to know
who won
the elections in the United States.
Eyes are on the "battlefield" states where Donald Trump and Joe Biden are fighting side by side.
But how long will we have to wait?
The states where the fight is concentrated are Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina.
Also Nevada.
According to
The New York Times
, voters mailed nearly
64 million ballots
before Election Day, a record fueled by the pandemic.
The count is underway, but there are vast differences between states on the battlefield in how it unfolds, and potential legal challenges, particularly from the Trump campaign, are likely to further complicate the process.
Some battlefield states, like
North Carolina
, have been processing ballots for weeks.
But there is an additional fact, people voted by mail on the day of the election, and those votes will be admitted in North Carolina
until November 12.
So while the state has already counted 95% of the votes, there are still votes by mail to enter, in an enclave where Trump leads Biden less than two points apart.
Let's look at another key state:
Pennsylvania.
The Trump campaign and Republican allies blocked counties from processing mail-in ballots before the election, enforcing the face-to-face vote count, which is typically Republican or red.
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Then the postal votes remain to be counted, and the state already has the approval of the courts to accept and count the postal votes stamped on November 3 that arrive at the electoral offices up to three days after the election.
That is
until Friday.
Let's clarify that Pennsylvania is a "treasure", an electoral "booty", with 20 voters.
The difference here is more comfortable for Trump (55 to 43%, a difference of 700 thousand votes) but it is estimated that all the votes that remain to be counted are Democrats.
Will they reach Biden to turn that difference?
A woman counts votes in Michigan.
Photo: AFP
Another disputed state is
Michigan.
where 14 percent of the votes are counted, which are those arrived by mail and which would also favor Democrats.
The local government said it will have a "very clear picture" this
Wednesday night.
Wisconsin
is another battlefield, where candidates fight head-to-head, but a necessary machine for the vote counting ran out of ink this Wednesday, delaying the count, which is already to conclude
this Wednesday morning
with a Biden with 49 .5% leading against 48.8% for Trump.
Wisconsin offers 10 voters.
Nevada is another state that has yet to define a winner.
There the difference is less than one point in favor of Biden, but 14 percent of the votes have yet to be counted.
The state announced Wednesday that it will no longer update any more data until Thursday.
And you still have to count the mail-in ballots that came in on Election Day and those that come in next week.
Nevada offers 6 voters.
Patience, readers.
With information from The New York Times
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