Election Counting Close Time

With several states still too close to call biden addresses supporters and urges patience with the vote counting saying that he is confident he is going to eventually win.

Election counting close time. See maps and real time presidential election results for the 2020 us election. Akst all of hawaii november 3 7 00 p m. There is no fixed time limit for the completion of the vote counting process.

As per the election commission ec guidelines the process of counting votes from the electronic voting machines evms will begin 30 minutes after this. That statistic represents nearly 70 of the total u s. Ballots can start being counted when polls close on election day at 8 pm.

Georgia election officials said on friday they are preparing for a recount due to the extremely close nature of the race in the state. Despite not being able to process absentee ballots until election day which originally stoked fears of a delayed count many counties say they will be able to count everything on election night. The alaska time zone sections of alaska november 3 8 00 p m.

As of saturday morning biden leads trump by just over 7 000. The counting of postal ballots for each. Joe biden is set to become the next president of the united states.

Special votes are counted after election day. Absentee or mail in ballots must be delivered by election day at 8 p m. Generally for the presidential elections the waiting time does not exceed seven days and the waiting time for legislative and provincial elections does not exceed one month.

Ordinary votes those cast on saturday will be counted from 7pm.