Both sides involved in a very hot contest. This morning as we are counting. The ballot said that have already been cast, but the voting is far from done i the countdown thats going to be the herculean feat for a number of states as they try and get these numbers out as. Quickly as they can. But they do have their own legal processes that vary from state to state but yeah interesting and it was 2 different stories last night when we heard President Trump prematurely say that he had one. The battleground states and joe biden saying patients because as we said james, there are still. Our least hundreds of thousands of ballots yet to count. These are not new votes. These are not ballots that have just been found. But they were cast in many cases months ago, yeah, thats right. These were the early polls. Counts the mail in ballots that for some states had to wait until day of ballots were counted before they could then be process which is why its no surprise that for some states were still
Here in the bay area county registrars are busy processing ballots, but theres also a growing sense of anxiety from many voters. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana reports in San Francisco on voter turnout and voter stress. Reporter just two days till polls close on election 2020, and county registrars offices across the bay area are already busy processing ballots. But for some voters there is still a pretty high level of anxiety. I am anxious in the sense that in light of the new voting, you know, vote by mail, we wont know whats going to happen till much later than tuesday. It becomes contested, violence, unrest, things like that. Reporter however you decided to keep track of the election, whether watching the news around the clock or checking updates, psychologists agree on one this can. Voters from all parties have been reporting high stress levels because of the election. Its been at times divisive and at other times bizarre. There are boundaries around how much of the conversations y
Campaign and by the democrats since 2016 so theyve been accused of having publicized the disclosures the wiki leaks and thus helping. Trump win and at worst helping the kremlin so just to be you know fair to the media i think they theyve been scared of touching this because again they think of trump wins then they will be blamed for this victory but that doesnt excuse their refusal to invest in something that is clearly news because here we have the man who presumably or piece of going into the polls will be the next president of the United States was using his name to enrich his family and he was his family was in business with some very dicey people helping the Chinese Government. Which after all but its going to be one of the big issues of the coming decades america. Rivalry competition whatever with china and here is this man was going to be the president who is really seems to be batting for the other team hes helping the Chinese Government to infiltrate itself within American Lif
Have said the same no proof of wrongdoing fraud or manipulation if you count the illegal votes easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. The election from us if you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in ive already to say surely one many critical stage. Democratic president ial candidate joe biden is calling for calm as the final votes from tuesdays election continue to be counted hes closing the gap on donald trump of pennsylvania and georgia and says hes confident becoming the next president. Each ballot must be counted. And thats what were going to see going through now and thats how it should be democracy is sometimes messy it sometimes requires a little patience as well but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years the system of government governance thats been the envy of the world and we continue to feel sad and i will continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no
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