The lines were long. Voters wore masks and gloves. And nearly a week after Wisconsin had people go to the polls in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic — despite closing hundreds of precincts — the results are expected to arrive on Monday evening.

County and municipal clerks cannot report results until 4 p.m. Central time because of a court order that extended the deadline for returning absentee ballots, but they have been allowed to do some of the work of processing votes already, which could speed up the reporting process tonight.

“Election officials are able to feed ballots into optical scanners now, and until the deadline for ballots to arrive,” said Reid Magney, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Elections Commission. “What they cannot do until 4 p.m. is create a report of the results.”

Here’s what to watch for when the results come in:

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At the last minute, Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, dropped his previous insistence that he did not have the power to change the election date without the consent of the Republican-controlled State Legislature. Mr. Evers tried to mail absentee ballots to all voters or move the primary given the pandemic, but the State Supreme Court, which is controlled by conservative justices, overturned the governor’s effort.