'The bottom line is, we're not going to have the full results and counting of all of our ballots on election night,' the Michigan secretary of state said.
The voting options have changed this year in Michigan for the November 3 General Election, and so have the expectations on how they count the ballots. Voting options are more robust, but ballot tabulation will be slower, according to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
"The bottom line is, we're not going to have the full results and counting of all of our ballots on election night," Benson said Sunday on NBC's"Meet the Press.""But I'm also laser focused on accuracy and if it takes a few extra days to ensure we have a full and accurate counting of the results of every race, that's what it's going to take.
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