Two days after the polling process for the mid-term elections in the United States, the final results have not come out and the counting process is still going on even after 48 hours have passed.
According to the French news agency AFP, it is not unusual to wait for the results after the elections in the United States. First, the media make their own predictions based on information from counting clerks and other officials and other statistical analyses, and then certain candidates make claims about their superiority while the analyzes go along with it. live
Reasons for delay in results
Elections in the US are decentralized and the 50 states have their own laws.
Some Americans vote by machine, while others exercise their right to vote with paperwork. Some vote in person, while there are those who send their votes by mail, while there is also the Dropbox option.
Election officials have been urging patience for the results, but some politicians are unable to do so.
Marco Rubio, belonging to the Republican Party, expressed his complaint in this regard through a tweet.
"If Florida can count 7.5 million votes in five hours, how can some states take so long to count only 2 million votes?"
Americans vote on a single ballot paper for various candidates and some other measures, so counting them takes time.
Due to the corona epidemic, the trend of voting by post appeared to increase significantly and this time also a large number of people have done the same. Due to this, matters are getting delayed as the mailed ballot papers reach the stations several days after the election.
In Ohio and Alaska, votes that arrive up to ten days later are also counted.
Similarly, many states do not allow election system officials to begin counting mail-in ballots in advance.
Delays in election results fuel conspiracy theories, and a similar atmosphere was seen in the 2020 election when former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that it was rigged.
At that time, Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden were competing and the final result regarding both of them could not be revealed for four days.
"A Good Day for Democracy"
On Thursday, US President Joe Biden called the mid-term elections a good day for democracy.
During a press conference at the White House, US President Joe Biden said that the results of the elections are a sign that American democracy is intact and safe despite being threatened for the past several years.
