With voting complete in the 2020 election, all eyes are on the count. State workers are tallying up the votes from an election conducted with a mix of in-person and mail-in voting, stretched out over multiple weeks.

Some of the election results were still unavailable for Maryland’s largest counties on Thursday morning due to the process of transferring data from thumb drives.

Uploading and confirming votes is a manual process that takes eight to ten minutes, according to a press release from officials at the Maryland Board of Elections. Data from thumb drives is uploaded from scanners to the state’s central database, but there’s another step that requires additional confirmation.

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