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RandySF

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Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:46 AM Sep 2020

Elections officials will count Pennsylvania mail ballots around the clock until they're done

Everybody’s going to want to know who won the White House, and nobody wants to be the reason the world is waiting to find out.

So elections officials in Philadelphia and its four suburban counties have an aggressive but simple new plan for reducing the time it will take to count a deluge of mail ballots: Once they start counting on Election Day, they won’t stop.

“We’re planning on running 24 hours a day,” said Bob Harvie, the Bucks County commissioner who chairs the elections board. “Once we start opening ballots, we’re going to have different shifts where we’re never going to close the doors of the Board of Elections.”

That’s a significant departure from the past, when counties would process votes late into the night but eventually send everyone home, continuing to count ballots as part of lengthy work days following an election. This year, those work days won’t end.



https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/counting-pennsylvania-mail-ballots-philadelphia-suburbs-20200918.html

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Elections officials will count Pennsylvania mail ballots around the clock until they're done (Original Post) RandySF Sep 2020 OP
KR! Cha Sep 2020 #1
Good! Dont leave ballots alone, count till theyre done onetexan Sep 2020 #2
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