These are the reasons for the slow vote count in the US elections
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The United States and the world are on the lookout for the winner of the US presidential election, while the vote counting process is slow.
Polling results are updated at a frequency of no more than a few thousand votes each time.
Therefore, a question arises: Why does the vote count take so long?
"Speed is great," says Georgia state election official Gabriel Sterling. "We appreciate speed."
But we appreciate the accuracy more ».
Fears of the spread of the "Covid-19" pandemic have prompted many states to encourage voters to vote by mail for the first time.
And many states found themselves faced with a massive mail-in ballot of 70 million out of more than 150 million votes.
The short time available to process the large numbers of postal ballots caused many problems.
Election officials need new types of ballot papers, new equipment, more space, and more tables, chairs, and staff.
The mail service, which is understaffed and understaffed, is also causing the process to be delayed.
To prepare for the influx of cards, some states have extended the grace period for postal ballot papers after Election Day on November 3.
In Michigan, election officials were unable to open the envelopes before Monday, the day before the election, and in Pennsylvania, the process began on Election Tuesday.
Sorting out postal ballots is cumbersome.
In many states, cards must be verified by comparing the voter's signature on the outer envelope with the signature recorded in the database.
Cards received after the election day have their postmark checked to ensure they are sent in a timely manner.
Many centers are equipped with devices that can do the initial work, but rejected cards may be many and must be manually reviewed.
Then the cards must be removed from the envelopes, and in many states they are in "(internal) privacy-sensitive circumstances," and collected before being passed through the voting counters.
If the counters fail to read the cards, they are checked and then passed manually, in the presence of more than one official who supervises the accuracy of the process.
Other problems may occur that hinder screening.
In South Carolina, a county was forced to manually sort all 14,600 of the votes due to a print error that prevented the devices from reading them.
And each card bears more than the names of the presidential candidates.
There are congressional candidates, state and local government candidates, police chiefs, judges, and even investigators.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, which includes Pittsburgh, was forced to suspend the manual count of about 30,000 problem cards.
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