US election 2020 results: Three days and counting, the wait continues for a result in US election

The anxiety and the tension are building.

Three days after the US election, Americans are still waiting for results of the presidential vote.

Many experts had predicted that an increase in mail-in ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic would mean that counting would take longer.

The delay, in and of itself, is not an indication that anything is wrong with the vote, though President Donald Trump has alleged fraud, without citing evidence.

But the wait is still agonizing. Neither Trump nor Democratic challenger Joe Biden has reached the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House.

But Biden eclipsed Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan, two crucial Midwestern battleground states, and overtook the president in the counts in Pennsylvania and Georgia, though the races there are too early to call and ballots are still being tallied.

As they wait, some Americans have taken to the streets to protest, while many have been glued to TV screens or are frantically refreshing blue-and-red-tinted maps as they watch the vote count inch up.

Protesters, police, members of the media and others converge outside of the Philadelphia Convention Center.

Protesters, police, members of the media and others converge outside of the Philadelphia Convention Center as the counting of ballots continues in the state on November 06, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Protesters, police, members of the media and others converge outside of the Philadelphia Convention Center as the counting of ballots continues in the state on November 06, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.