Listen, folks, calm down.
Yes, this could be one long week as people across the country wait to find out if President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden will win the 2020 election.
Take a deep breath.
Sure, the count of mail-in ballots will be slow, especially since many states didn’t allow the tablulation of them to begin before Nov. 3.
Count slowly to 10 and exhale.
Even in New Jersey, which allowed the count of vote-by-mail ballots to begin 10 days before Election Day, there will be delays. The Garden State will accept late mail-in ballots until Nov. 10 as long as they were postmarked by Nov. 3.
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