A Paterson source didn’t know what to say Wednesday morning with the city still hanging like an 8.7 square mile chad, its immediate elections legacy scarred by men with bats in the street and bound ballots in a Haledon mailbox.

Oh, yeah, and COVID-19 continues to assail the high-density city.

“The fact that the ballots weren’t counted in a day should surprise no one,” said the source. “An impossible task considering the number of ballots and the difficulty of counting under a pandemic.”