Why the election results may take days to decide a winner [Video]

It could take days to determine an unofficial winner of the 2024 presidential race. And while projections of who will take each state may appear early on, election officials in key battlegrounds are pledging accurate and official results by counting every vote.The timeline will rely in part on swing states Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where rules do not allow the processing of mail-in ballots until Election Day.”The law that prevents counties from beginning to process mail ballots until 7 a.m. on election morning,” Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt said.”Election officials have to process all absentee ballots – in Milwaukee, Green Bay – all the ballots are sent to a central location, and then processed,” Jay Heck of Common Cause Wisconsin said. “Election results will not be known until after midnight.”In states where processing has already started, the race may still be too close to call. For months, even years, state …