Days after US voters cast their ballots, the final results of 2022 mid-term remain unclear with officials across the country warning that the outcome may still not be known by weeks.
The delays are the results of a number of factors, including razor-thin margins between the candidates and the fact Georgia, a Key Senate battleground is headed to a run-election.
Other delays are due to the decentralized way in which elections are set up in the USA in which states have valid rules for how mail-in ballots are counted and when.
The issue of delays has been possibly a constant one when then-President Donald Trump attempted to claim victory the following morning, while votes were still being tallied declaring continued voting as a "fraud" and an "embarrassment".
This week Mr. Trump has again cast doubt on the process of taking to his Truth Social social media platform to call several state elections a "voter integrity disaster" and accusing his political opponents of "trying to steal the election the machine and delay."
Ahead of the mid-term, however, election officials across the country warned the public that delays are normal, expected part of US elections.
In a speech on the2nd November, President Joe Biden also weighed and warned that "It's important for citizens to be patient while ballots are being counted in a legal and orderly manner."
Although the final numbers are not yet the preliminary data from the US elstection project sugge that more than 11534 million Americans about 47 percent of eligible voters who participated in the 2018 midterm turn-out in some states appears to have been historically high.
The elections also saw 42 million people cast their ballot in an early voting by mail ahead of the 5th of November, surpassing 2018's total 39 million. This is among the key factors to find vote tribulations being delayed.
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