Election officials are cautiously optimistic that any delays in results this year won’t be as large or as widespread as in 2020.
| Bebeto Matthews/AP PhotoIt took five days after Election Day 2020 to tally enough votes for media organizations to call the presidential race for Joe Biden.Many of the same factors in the same battleground states are at play in 2022, starting with races that could have very slim margins.
The time between the end of voting and the release of unofficial results “is one of the most precarious time periods for the spread of election myths and disinformation,” said Rachel Orey, the associate director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s elections project. “When the public is uncertain, they’re much more amenable to claims of fraud.”
In Arizona, Kari Lake and Mark Finchem — Trump’s endorsed candidates for governor and secretary of state — indicated before the GOP primary theyTrump, too, has encouraged this sort of behavior. During the close Pennsylvania Senate primary won by Trump-endorsed Mehmet Oz, the former president encouraged Ozbecause that would make “it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they ‘just happened to find.
One main reason is that midterms usually have significantly fewer ballots to count than in a presidential election like 2020, which saw a record number of votes. And some voters who opted to vote via the mail in 2020 — the type of ballots that are often, though not always, last to be reported — are expected to return to voting in person, with the pandemic fading and Trump-aligned Republicans continuing to rail against mail voting.
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