Here in New York, there are these huge spaces all over the city, where up until a few days ago, ballots were being scrutinized and votes were being counted.

Queens isn't like an auditorium, and the one in Brooklyn is in a literal cage.

A cage?

Like a wire cage inside this warehouse

that is just filled otherwise

with voting machines wrapped in plastic.

Jada Yuan writes for The Washington Post. She's been looking at these sites.

Ballots come here to be certified, confirmed as authentic. When I was there in Brooklyn, a bunch of

people conferred around and they were like, Barry actually wasn't even supposed to be voting in

this district. So Barry got his vote thrown out. Like literally a guy named Barry? Yeah, literally. Poor Barry. Whoever you are, I'm so sorry.

But this process of certification, it's been happening for nearly a month.

Election Day in New York, the primary for Congress and the presidency, it was way back in June, 37 days ago.

In a couple of races, New York still hasn't officially called the race.

And it's just you can't look away, but you also are just like, what is happening and why is this taking so long?

It's funny. I'm used to thinking about election night. I feel like all of us are, right? But it feels like that whole concept needs like a rebrand.

You like election month. It's sort of, it's like, it's like, you know, when people say, it's my birthday month, you know,

except that you're not celebrating. You're just sort of stuck in waiting for Godot forever.

This is not how it normally works, right? Well, I think it's how it normally works with

absentee ballot counting and affidavit counting,

but there's just never been this scale.

Like everything else in the world, New York's election was transformed by COVID,

and the results aren't pretty.

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