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'We'll Be Working 24 Hours': Vote Counting To Continue Through The Week

Election officials have been warning for months that the influx of mail-in votes this year could mean a longer wait before the winner of the presidency is known.
A problem ballot box is placed on the end of a table where workers with the Detroit Department of Elections sorts through absentee ballots.

Election Day itself went off far more smoothly than many election officials would have predicted seven months ago, as the pandemic took hold in the middle of primary season.

But for months, those officials warned that the expected influx of mail-in votes this year could mean a longer wait before the winner of the presidency was known.

As Nov. 3 turned into

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