Why Would Ballot Counting in Closely Contested Races Take Longer Than in Clear Victory Races If Not to Cheat?

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The election-fraud deniers of the establishment media are saying that election results in close races will take longer to determine, so why would the ballots in those close races take longer to count if not to cheat, shouldn’t they be counted as quickly as the other races, what would be different except to cheat?