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Pennsylvania’s mail ballot problems kept tens of thousands from voting in a pandemic primary

Voters whose mail ballot requests were processed less than three weeks before the primary were less and less likely with each passing day to end up successfully voting, according to an Inquirer analysis.

Workers deliver a cart full of ballots from voting machines around the city to the Philadelphia Board of Elections June 4, 2020. On the day after Pennsylvania's primary election, results are taking longer because of a flood of mail-in ballots city officials need to process.
Workers deliver a cart full of ballots from voting machines around the city to the Philadelphia Board of Elections June 4, 2020. On the day after Pennsylvania's primary election, results are taking longer because of a flood of mail-in ballots city officials need to process.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer