Don't be fooled: the delays in the US election result mean our system is working | Lawrence Douglas
Counting early ballots – and some 100 million Americans voted before election day – is labor intensive. What we need now is patience US election live – follow all the latest updates
Election day has come and gone, and we don’t yet have a winner. This, of course, is not a surprise. Many experts, election officials and journalists have anticipated precisely such an outcome, and have sought to counsel patience. An election, after all, is not a day but a process, and the process is not complete until all votes have been counted.
If we are unaccustomed to having to wait for the results, we are also unaccustomed to voting in a time of pandemic. The fact that
