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Americans Anxiously Await Election Results as Vote Counting Continues

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - The winner of the U.S. presidential election remained in
   doubt Wednesday, with the outcome hinging on a handful of states where
   a flood of mail-in ballots sparked by the coronavirus pandemic remained
   to be counted.
   President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden both won
   states they were expected to win in their bid for a majority in the
   Electoral College that determines who wins the White House in the
   country's indirect form of democracy.
   But the outcome of contests in several states -- Georgia and
   Pennsylvania in the eastern part of the country, Michigan and Wisconsin
   in the Midwest and Arizona and Nevada in the West -- was unsettled as
   officials counted millions of votes, some that were cast on Tuesday and
   many more during weeks of early voting.
   By mid-morning Wednesday, Trump led in Georgia and Pennsylvania and
   Biden in the other four, but with the eventual results uncertain.

   With mail-in ballots from heavily Democratic communities now being
   tabulated, the Biden campaign said, "Joe Biden is on track to win this
   election."

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