States make their own announcements, and each state has their own methods for counting and tallying, according to their own timelines. Why? Because the press- while it certainly does report on the results, and has notoriously been wrong in the past as in 20 were both examples of overzealous reporting by pundits- is not the arbiter of the winners and losers. In fact, the Constitution has a process for determining the winner of the presidential election, and nowhere does it mention the responsibility of the press to make the call. However, according to the Times, "In the United States - which, unlike many other countries, does not have a national electoral commission - the role of calling the winners of presidential elections falls to the news media." States each have different timelines for how late after election day those ballots can be received and counted. The final results are often able to be called on election night, as polls close and tallies are reported, but this year, there was such a large number of votes cast by absentee, or mail-in ballot, that states will need time for those ballots to arrive and be counted.
Often, the result of the popular vote matches the votes of the Electoral College, but it is possible, as it was in 2016, for the popular vote to be won by one candidate while the Electoral College votes to choose the other. Those electors then cast their votes for president, and it is the outcome of that vote that determines who takes the White House. Instead, it falls to each states' board of elections to round up the tallies from all the counties to determine which candidates receive electoral votes from that state. The New York Times, nor any other news media source, is responsible for determining the outcome of the US presidential election. The news media projects winners and reports results it does not declare the winner of the election." The Times deleted their tweet, and reposted, saying "We've deleted an earlier tweet that referred imprecisely to the role of the news media in the U.S. When the New York Post was falsely accused by Twitter for running afoul of their misinformation ban (for a legitimate story about the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop) they were suspended for two weeks before Twitter acknowledged their mistake. The Times came to their senses, seemingly, and deleted it themselves, but the article's claims remain the same. Yet Twitter did not flag or removed this obvious election disinformation, nor block The New York Times for posting it. The broadcast networks and cable news outlets have vowed to be prudent. They wrote that "The role of declaring the winner of a presidential election in the U.S. The New York Times spread election disinformation on Twitter on Tuesday evening, as they proclaimed that the news media are the ones who are meant to declare the winner of the hotly contested US presidential election.
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