Why The 2022 Midterm Election Results May Not Be Known Right Away

CBS Minnesota

November 3, 2022

It's the night of the election, and polls have been closed for hours. Why don't Americans know who the winners are?

In 2020, then-President Donald Trump proclaimed that the lack of final results on election night could be an indicator of something nefarious and used it to assert without evidence that the election was stolen: "We don't want them to find any more ballots at 4 o'clock in the morning and add them to the list," he said.

In reality, however, results released on election night are unofficial and always incomplete. They inevitably change as more ballots are counted.

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