Maybe nobody desires the election to finish greater than the vote counters themselves.With tens of hundreds of ballots nonetheless to be counted an
Maybe nobody desires the election to finish greater than the vote counters themselves.
With tens of hundreds of ballots nonetheless to be counted and the world ready for a last outcome, counters in a number of key states, sporting masks and gloves, had been set to proceed to tally votes into subsequent week, risking their very own security as coronavirus instances in the US hit report highs.
In West Chester, Pa., election employees unseal ballots underneath fluorescent lights, and feed them by hand into high-speed scanners, in video seen on KYW-TV in Philadelphia.
They got the weekend off and can proceed counting ballots inside a college fitness center on Monday morning.
On the Pennsylvania Conference Heart in Philadelphia, a livestream confirmed poll counters in yellow and orange reflective jackets, sitting at reverse ends of tables tabulating ballots all through the week.
Phil Armstrong, the county govt in Lehigh County, stated the employees had been exhausted, in an interview with The Morning Name in Allentown, Pa.
“I don’t understand how anybody might have finished this course of each rapidly and punctiliously,” Mr. Armstrong informed the newspaper. “It’s only a very tedious course of.”