Delays in verifying mail-in ballots will slow election tally
Voters awaiting results in some of the key presidential battleground states on election night should be prepared to keep waiting, thanks to obstacles that will slow the count for what is expected to be a crush of mailed-in ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic.Many states allow local officials to start processing those ballots weeks before Election Day or even as they arrive.
But in some of the most crucial states on the electoral map, rules that prevent or give clerks little time to begin sorting ballots and verifying signatures before the election are priming a scenario in which results may come in days — or even weeks — later.In an election cycle that has seen President Donald Trump baselessly cast doubt on the legitimacy of mail voting,.
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