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A unidentified woman looks over mail ballots, as a group flattens them on counting floor.
A unidentified woman looks over mail ballots, as a group flattens them on counting floor.Read moreAlejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer

Workers began counting mail ballots at Philadelphia’s election warehouse on Roosevelt Blvd early Tuesday morning.

Election results will take longer to report after officials voted Tuesday morning to reinstate a process that can catch possible double votes from being counted. The change means that ballots still left to count after Tuesday night — numbering in the low tens of thousands — will instead be counted and reported in a slow trickle over the rest of the week.

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