The growth of voting by mail has led to slower counts in some states, but it takes much longer than election night to complete official counts.
As for midterm elections, in 2014, the APat 5:36 a.m. Eastern time the day after Election Day that it would not be calling the Senate races for Virginia and Alaska and the gubernatorial races for Connecticut and Colorado because there wasn’t yet sufficient data.
Some cities or counties, particularly smaller ones, may release unofficial counts on election night. But they may continue their counting for days as officials sort out absentee ballots that were missing a signature on the envelope or ballots that were cast provisionally. State laws set a deadline for official results, and that deadline is never on election night.
Under many states’ laws, certain types of ballots will inevitably take longer than Election Day to count, such as those for citizens and service members overseas, or provisional ballots that have been cast but that need to have the voter’s status confirmed by election officials before being counted.The Instagram post has a kernel of truth: The rise in mail balloting has likely made it harder for media outlets to call races on election night.
Complicating matters is that some states have limited how early election officials can start processing mail ballots. For example, in Pennsylvania, election officials can’t start until 7 a.m. on Election Day.In Colorado, where nearly everyone casts a mail ballot, county clerks can start processing ballots 15 days before Election Day and then begin uploading results as soon as the polls close.
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