The New York Times Magazine - USA (2020-11-15)
Left: Tricia Mack, a postal clerk, worked so much overtime that she dreamed one night of being at the post office. ‘‘I woke up t ...
‘Are you going to lose my ballot?’ Outside a facility in Hillsborough County, Fla. ...
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In late September, amid congres- sional pressure, a directive came down from headquarters in Washington: Starting eight days bef ...
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‘We’re treating this like gold.’ ...
Left: Edwin Oliveras, a letter carrier, said of his customers and their ballots: ‘‘I have quite a few that come to me and say, ‘ ...
‘When other things break down, this keeps going.’ ...
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Worries about mail-in ballots per- sisted through Election Day, when a federal judge issued a 3 p.m. deadline to the U.S. Postal ...
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NOVEMBER 15, 2020 Adding Th em Upp Tallying so many absentee ballots was a painstaking eff ort, with diff erent start times in d ...
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Some states had weeks before Election Day to sort, prepare and tabulate absentee ballots as they received them from the U.S. Pos ...
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‘I treat these ballots like money, with the same level of security.’ 58 ...
Left: A locked cage holding ballots collected from a drop box in Collier County, Fla. Right: Lisa Lewis, the election supervisor ...
Local election offi cials in Flor- ida’s 67 county offi ces handled the counting across the state. Some election workers opened ...
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