Election Challenges, Protests, Conspiracy Theories, and Moral Panics

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Trump spent months telling his voters not to trust mail ballots. The mail ballots were then predominantly Biden.

It’s also not unheard of for results to be entered in batches based on the candidate. Normally these sort of results would roll in at a faster pace where you wouldn’t notice seemingly uneven results coming in, but the slow nature of counting mail in ballots in states without a strong mail in ballots infrastructure combined with increase scrutiny/observation of 4/5 specific states led to far closer tracking of individual ballot updates