Well, just to throw a little more uncertainty into the mix, here in Colorado the Secretary of State is saying that the entire electronic voting system is down statewide. All in-person votes are now being recorded as provisional ballots. Under a new system, every colorado voter this year received a mail-in ballot, but there are still some who are voting in-person. When I dropped off our ballots this morning, there were surprisingly long lines to vote the old fashioned way. Not sure how much of an impact this outage may have, but I presume it could delay reporting Colorado's outcome for quite a while.
...but I presume it could delay reporting Colorado’s outcome for quite a while.
I don’t think much. They were probably using OCR read paper ballots like the mail in’s.
Those go through the machine really quickly. There could be a little delay as they move the paper ballots to the counting centers. But most or all of the in-person voting places are also mail drop places for mail-in ballots. So the voting spots are going to have to run the mail-ins up to county anyway.