It didn’t need to take that long: What Pennsylvania’s election could have looked like with earlier counting
Polls had been closed in Florida for only a few hours last month when elections offices started closing up shop for the night, too. Almost all the votes were counted and reported, and there just wasn’t much left to do at that moment. News organizations had already . Things in Tampa, for example, shut down by 1 a.m., the county supervisor of elections said. Related stories In Philadelphia, meanwhile, elections officials weren’t even halfway through a 50-hour stretch without sleep, at the start of . “I wanted to take a 12-hour break to let people get some sleep, and it was just impossible,”...…Polls had been closed in Florida for only a few hours last month when elections offices started closing up shop for the night, too. Almost all the votes were counted and reported, and there just wasn’t much left to do at that moment. News organizations had already . Things in Tampa, for example, shut down by 1 a.m., the county supervisor of elections said. Related stories In Philadelphia, meanwhile, elections officials weren’t even halfway through a 50-hour stretch without sleep, at the start of . “I wanted to take a 12-hour break to let people get some sleep, and it was just impossible,”...WW…