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Election officials in Philadelphia have spent the past four years preparing for a race against the clock. Now, it is here. At 7 a.m. Tuesday, as other Philadelphians headed to the polls for in-person ...

Allegheny County and Philadelphia, for the most part, have similar processes. The day starts with election workers checking the outer envelopes of mail ballots to ensure there are no defects that ...