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While Pennsylvania fights about when to open mail ballots, New Jersey is just doing it

New Jersey’s voter turnout has hit 80% of the state’s total number of ballots cast in 2016. And unlike next door in Pennsylvania, many of those 3.1 million votes are already being counted.

Ballot drop boxes at the Camden County Board of Elections headquarters in Blackwood on Oct. 26. October 26.
Ballot drop boxes at the Camden County Board of Elections headquarters in Blackwood on Oct. 26. October 26.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer