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(11 Sep 2024)
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Denver - 11 September 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press:
"On election night, we can expect to be in suspense in several of the swing states that are going to determine who wins the White House."

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Pittsburgh - 18 April 2024
2. STILL of mail-in ballots in USPS trays

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Denver - 11 September 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press:
"In Pennsylvania, the state doesn't allow mail ballots to be opened until Election Day."

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Kenosha, Wisconsin – 3 November 2020
4. Various of voting location and polling place signs

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Detroit - 4 November 2020
5. Election workers counting ballots

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Garden City, Michigan - 5 May 2020
6. STILL of absentee ballots

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Mesa, Arizona - 4 March 2024
7. Woman dropping off ballot in Maricopa County ballot drop box

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Phoenix - 5 March 2024
8. Wide of election officials working on ballots at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center
9. Close-up of an election official flipping through mail ballots

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Denver - 11 September 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press:
"Wisconsin has similar issues where they also don't allow their mail ballots to be opened and processed until Election Day itself. Michigan was the third swing state that had this issue. But the Democratic legislature and its Democratic governor passed and signed a law to change that. So now they can open their mail ballots several days before Election Day and have them all tallied up ahead of time. That's the way it works in most mail states. And it's the reason why some states with lots of mail ballots, like Florida, actually report their results faster. Other states that rely heavily on mail can take longer though. Arizona is one of the great examples of this. In Arizona, you can drop off a mail ballot as late as at the time polls close on Election Day itself."

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Las Vegas - 9 November 2022
11. Exterior of Clark County Election Center

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Las Vegas - 3 January 2023
12. Wide of Las Vegas city skyline

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Denver - 11 September 2024
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press:
"That slows down the ballot count. They have similar provisions in Nevada, where a new law also allows ballots that are sent in the mail on Election Day and arrive a couple of days later to be counted."

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Detroit - 4 November 2020
14. STILL of person holding "count every vote" sign

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Denver - 11 September 2024
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press:
"As people watch the ballot count on the Internet on election night, it's important to understand that different states count differently because of some of these rules. And that's going to make different candidates seem to be in the lead at different times. Take, for example, Pennsylvania where you can't start processing those mail ballots until people are actually voting in person. That means the people who vote in person get their ballots counted first since those people tend to be Republican. That means Republicans usually seem to be in the lead in Pennsylvania."

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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - 5 November 2020
16. STILL of Donald Trump supporters holding "stop the seal" signs

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