This is Very Foreign to This Foreigner

The polls closed at 5 pm. It is now almost 10 pm.  There are no results.  Some guesses, but nothing concrete.  All the jabbering is from Singapore with a couple of professors from there, still giving opinions of what they think.  All that sort of stuff should have been aired at 5 pm, and leading up to announcing the results.

Looking at any online reports and the time for the comments are 11 pm???? It is only 10 pm anywhere in Malaysia.

I am definitely confused. What is the delay in reporting the vote count?  It is very quiet around here. Usually I can hear motorcycle traffic racing down the road that connects to my street. Nothing.

There was a record turnout of voters, which anywhere else would indicate a change of government. But here, I am not so sure.  Add that to the fact that counting ballots seems to happen in slow motion, we may just not know the results until next month.

I dont think we have to stay locked in around here. The ballots probably wont be counted until June.