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by HWR_14 1776 days ago
It's recent because of the huge amount of write in ballots. Usually the winner is called the night of because they* just ignore the mail in numbers, even in battleground states. This year, there were too many (and they were too different a population from the in person ballots) to do that.

* "They" meaning the news media. The official vote took longer and counted the mail in ballots

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Ah yes, COVID. And then some states passed laws that the mail in ballots couldn't start being counted until after election day.