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The United States Postal Service has said that about 1,700 ballots in Pennsylvania were identified at the processing facility during two raids and were being turned over to election officials.
In a court filing earlier this morning, the USPS said 1,076 ballots had been found at the USPS processing and distribution center in Philadelphia. Approximately 300 were found at the Pittsburgh processing center, 266 at a Lehigh Valley facility and others found at other Pennsylvania processing centers.
Ballots must be received by Pennsylvania tonight to be counted. The vote for the president of the United States remains extremely close and Pennsylvania is one of the states that remains undecided.
About 500 ballots were also discovered in North Carolina during the raids, the USPS said today.
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Federal District Judge Emmet Sullivan had ordered twice-daily raids on USPS facilities serving states with extended deadlines for receiving ballots, as votes are still counted in the battle states of US elections.
Some states, including Nevada and North Carolina, are counting ballots received after Election Day as long as they are postmarked Tuesday.
Attorneys said in a court hearing yesterday that the USPS had delivered about 150,000 ballots on Wednesday.
“The vast majority were destined for the postmarked states and would be delivered on time under state election law,” USPS said.
Judge Sullivan said processing centers must conduct sweeps in the morning and then in the afternoon “to ensure that identified local ballots can be delivered that day.”
Mr. Sullivan issued a separate order requiring USPS to “coordinate with all local County Boards of Elections in North Carolina or Pennsylvania” to deliver all ballots “by 5 pm local time in North Carolina or Pennsylvania” today. .
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