Presidential election results 2020

President Trump again strongly criticized the decision by the Supreme Court to allow Pennsylvania to receive ballots up to three days after Election Day, calling it “a very dangerous decision for our country.”

“I think the ruling on Pennsylvania was an unfortunate one by the Supreme Court because I think we should know what happens on the night. Let people put their ballots in earlier, but you have to have numbers, you can have these things delayed for many days and maybe weeks, you can’t do that,” Trump said during remarks at his campaign headquarters in Virginia on Tuesday.

“And a lot of shenanigans, a lot of bad things happen with ballots when you say ‘oh let's devote days and days’ and all of a sudden, the ballot count changes,” Trump baselessly added, implying cheating could occur if ballots are counted after Election Day.

However ballots are always counted after Election Day. Per a CNN fact check: “it's media outlets, not the government, that sometimes — but not always — unofficially project a winner on election night. The outlets do so by making projections based on the incomplete available data, not because they possess certified final totals."

Last night, Trump said the decision by the Supreme Court “will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. It will also induce violence in the streets.” Twitter flagged the tweet as misleading.

 “I think it's a very dangerous decision for our country in many ways dangerous, in many ways,” Trump added in his remarks Tuesday.

Approximately 50 voters were given an incorrect ballot when they showed up to vote at Hickory Ridge Middle School in Harrisburg, North Carolina, this morning.

Cabarrus County, which is northeast of Charlotte, has determined the wrong ballots were distributed between 6:30 a.m. ET until just before 7:30 a.m. ET. The ballots distributed at that time did not include the North Carolina 83rd District House race.

The Cabarrus County Board of Elections is encouraging voters who were at that polling place between those times to return to the site and cast a provisional ballot, for the House race only, by 7:30 p.m. ET. If they don’t cast a provisional ballot, their vote will still count. They just won’t have voted for the House race. 

Kasia Faryna Thompson, Cabarrus County Director of Communications, says the board is working to track down those voters and at this point, “the board knows who each of the voters are.”

CNN's Washington Bureau Chief Sam Feist explained how CNN makes projections and why 2020 is different to other years.

"This year's different than any other year. Everything in the country is different because of [Covid-19,]" Feist said.

One of the biggest changes in 2020's election rhythm is the massive uptick in mail-in ballots.

"It takes longer to count mail-in ballots. You have to open the envelope, open the outer envelope, check the signature, scan the ballot. It takes a while," he said. 

Certain states, including Florida and North Carolina, have been processing mail-in ballots for weeks, with early counts likely to favor Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Elsewhere, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, mail-in ballots aren't tabulated until after voting closes, a detail that could favor President Trump initially.

"Those states may favor Donald Trump late into the night, until those mail-in ballots go in, and then the count will even out a little bit," Feist said.

A look at how CNN makes projections: Wolf Blitzer announces that the network has projected this or that candidate will win a particular race.

The process that leads to Blitzer saying those words is careful and complicated. It involves both real-time results and information from exit polls. CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS work with the polling firm Edison Research in what is known as the National Election Pool for results and exit polling data. Fox News and the Associated Press have a separate arrangement.

For additional details as to how CNN calls a presidential election, read more here.

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Judge Emmet Sullivan of the US District Court of the District of Columbia ordered the United States Postal Service to sweep all processing facilities by 3 p.m. ET in a number of states, including some critical battleground state.

The order mandates that USPS postal inspectors "or their designees" must start sweeping the processing facilities by 3:00 p.m. ET.

According to the order, this is,

The sweeps must be conducted in the following USPS districts: 

Seven battleground states are conducting sweeps and do not allow ballots to arrive after Election Day. They include: Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Florida, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Maine.

President Trump just walked into the bullpen of his campaign headquarters in Virginia to sustained cheers from campaign staff.

"I feel very good," Trump told reporters.

Trump said his message to America was that "everybody should come together, and success brings us together." 

CNN reported earlier, that Trump huddled with his top campaign staffers in a conference room at the headquarters, a source tells CNN, including Bill Stepien, Justin Clark and several others. They met for about 20 minutes. 

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The North Carolina State Board of Elections says the board will meet at 1 p.m. ET this afternoon to consider extending hours at four voting locations.

The locations are: one polling place in Guilford County, one polling location in Cabarrus County, and two locations in Sampson County.

An extension of hours at even one of these locations would delay the reporting of results statewide. 

Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, said one of the reasons the sites opened late was because of poll workers arriving late. 

CNN reported earlier that slight opening delays had been reported in Sampson and Guilford counties. 

There was a printer issue at Marks First Missionary Baptist Church in Concord, North Carolina, which is in Cabarrus County. Kasia Faryna Thompson, Cabarrus County Director of Communications, estimates the issue delayed the poll from opening by about 15-20 minutes. 

Under state law, the State Board of Elections, by a majority vote, may extend voting hours at a polling place if polls are delayed in opening for more than 15 minutes or are interrupted for more than 15 minutes after opening.

The State Board may extend the closing time by an equal number of minutes. 

Poll watchers, as the name implies, are expected to watch or observe what happens at polling places. Their primary job: Help ensure that their party has a fair shot at winning. Both parties do it.

But poll watchers can't interfere in any way with the actual voting process.

They can closely monitor the administration of the election to ensure that votes are counted accurately. And in some states, poll watchers can also challenge an individual voter's right to cast a ballot. Partisan poll watchers, however, must conduct those challenges through official poll workers and cannot stop or otherwise try to interfere with someone trying to vote.

Even if a poll watcher challenges an individual voter – for instance, by arguing that the person's name doesn't appear on the local voting rolls – states often allow that person to cast a "provisional" ballot to be counted later, once his or her right to vote has been verified.

Poll watchers can also help turn out the vote by counting the voters who have cast ballots and helping their respective candidates track which potential supporters haven't yet voted. That helps campaigns mount last-minute Election Day efforts to get those voters to cast their ballots before polls close.

Read more here.

Luzerne County in Northeastern Pennsylvania, which voted for Barack Obama in 2012 but went for President Trump in 2016, has begun processing approximately 52,000 mail-in ballots and expects that number to grow to nearly 60,000 by the time polls close at 8 p.m. ET, according to release from County Manager David Pedri.

He said volunteers were processing approximately 2,000 ballots an hour.

If that pace continues, workers will have processed a little more than one third of the anticipated number of mail-in ballots by 8 p.m. local time.

Pedri said the county was “experiencing great voter turnout at almost every polling place across the County.”

Pedri said there were “a few reported issues” at the county’s 129 polling places this morning, most of which were technical and resolved once diagnosed.

He said voters should anticipate waiting in a line and noted that as long as they were in line by 8 p.m. local time they would be allowed to vote.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he thinks Ohio will know the results of the presidential election tonight. 

Early ballots will be counted first, DeWine told CNN’s Erin Burnett. 

The governor said he thinks Trump will perform well in rural areas of the state. 

“I think he could exceed even the votes he got the last time,” DeWine said. “…I think the intensity is there. The ground game it seems to me, from what I can observe for the Trump team, you know, has been a lot better than the ground game for the Biden team.” 

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