[GolberThorce]

"so if it's taking a long time to open thousands of envelopes, and it's a close race, you get incremental updates, but no final verdict until enough are counted."

Exactly. The criterion is delay in announcing results, but the election was legitimate so there's an issue with the criterion.

"there's a differences between a reporting delay and a counting delay."

not relevant to the standard

[bloppe]

I would say there's a very meaningful difference between "they're still counting the results, and releasing incremental counts, and all is being watched by poll watchers" vs. "we've finished counting, but we're not releasing the results for a while, and nobody is monitoring the process". The former sounds great. The latter sounds very suspicious.

Maybe it's just an issue in how the standards are interpreted by some people.