It doesn’t explain why there was a need to coordinate the two. What could that possibly be?
How about central coordinated control and time zone impacts?
Florida clearly broke for President Trump and became a non-factor.
North Carolina was contested, but it went for Trump, too.
Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan were the remaining Eastern Time Zone states, and therefore the first to close and report, that were targeted battleground states.
Polls were still open in Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin, when Georgia and then Pennsylvania began reporting.
I'm going to hypothesize that Georgia and Pennsylvania were the furthest along with counting among the swing states, and needed a pause to assess how the western states were doing. Once they saw what was going on, they needed to halt and coordinate how Georgia and Pennsylvania can make up for what was happening in the West.
FYI... Michigan is blocking audits.
-PJ