Election officials in some of the closest battlegrounds in the country are warning — again — that election results may take longer to tally than voters expect
Voters fill out and cast their ballots at the early voting location at White Oak Community Recreation Center on October 27, 2022 in Silver Spring, Md. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
“I’d like to remind everyone — voters, candidates, members of the media and the general public — that we will not have unofficial results in every race on election night,” Leigh Chapman, Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of the commonwealth, told reporters last week. “The bottom line is election results will take several days.”
Pennsylvania does not allow for any preprocessing of mail ballots. Michigan lawmakers this year allowed for two days of limited preprocessing, but the deal was reached so late in the year that only a few dozen of the state’s jurisdictions plan on taking advantage of it this year. Election officials have become increasingly concerned that bad actors are taking advantage of the lack of instantaneous results to spread misinformation — as Trump and his allies did so dramatically after the 2020 election.
But beyond the constant irritation — and occasional bemusement — that misinformation causes, election officials are fearful that it could also trigger violence or intimidation tactics, either targeted toward voters during the voting process — or perhaps more dramatically, toward election officials and poll workers in the aftermath.
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