Elections officials will count Pennsylvania mail ballots around the clock until they're done
Everybodys 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 wont stop.
Were planning on running 24 hours a day, said Bob Harvie, the Bucks County commissioner who chairs the elections board. Once we start opening ballots, were going to have different shifts where were never going to close the doors of the Board of Elections.
Thats 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 wont end.
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