Illinois has races to watch, too

It create “a lot of suspicion and misinformation about what’s happening,” said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor who runs an elections center on campus. “There were a lot of allegations in 2020 about votes being dumped or something happening maliciously in the middle of the night because it did happen in the middle of the night. That’s when election officials finished their work. It’s really just a product of the state law that requires that they can’t start counting until Election Day.”