Even though Election Day is almost one week away, we most likely won't know who our next president is going to be until slightly after Nov. 5.
FILE - A voter fills out her ballot for the Michigan primary election in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. In 2020, Election Day was on Nov. 3 and President Biden was projected the winner by the morning of Nov. 7. It doesn’t always take that long though, in 2016 President Trump was declared the winner just one day after Election Day.
North Carolina and Georgia were both called more than five days after Election Day in 2020, and both required hand recounts. Pennsylvania was called three and a half days after polls were closed, and that ended up being the moment Biden declared victory. There aren't any federal laws that mandate a specific deadline for states to finish counting ballots and declare a winner, but rather each state has its own rules. However, there is anThe number of ‘late early ballots’ in Arizona continues to grow. In Maricopa County alone, voters dropped off 290,735 early ballots at voting locations on Election Day in the recent November 2022 general election.
Also, it’s usually an extremely tight race in Arizona and particularly in that county. In 2020 Biden only won by 45,000 votes in a county of four million people.The Constitution is set up to let states run their own elections, but Congress could theoretically establish a federal vote-counting system for federal races, though it would probably face many legal challenges.
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