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Delays in verifying mail-in ballots will slow election tally

Election 2020 Voting Ballot Delays
Laurence Kesterson/AP
FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 file photo, An employee of the Philadelphia Commissioners Office examines ballots at a satellite election office at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia. Local election clerks can’t start verifying mailed-in ballots in Pennsylvania until Election Day and in Michigan until the day before, which the secretary of state says is not enough time. This means millions of mailed-in ballots in the two key presidential battleground states will not be tallied for days after the election, potentially showing Trump with a tenuous lead there the so-called “red mirage” until all those votes are recorded. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson, File)
Election 2020 Voting Ballot Delays
Posted at 11:00 AM, Oct 04, 2020
and last updated 2020-10-04 11:00:47-04

Many states allow local election clerks to verify mail-in ballots days or even weeks ahead of Election Day.

That gives them a head start when tabulating the results on all ballots begins.

But in some of the key presidential battleground states, clerks are prohibited from doing that or given very limited time to do so, slowing the count for what is expected to be a crush of mail-in ballots this year.

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