AP: Voting gets underway in Pennsylvania, as counties mail ballots and open satellite election offices

AP reports on the beginning of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania.

Voting has begun in earnest in the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, as counties increasingly begin mailing out ballots, offering over-the-counter voting in election offices and opening other avenues to voting.

In Philadelphia, the state’s largest city, voters have returned about 15,000 mail-in ballots, said Seth Bluestein, who sits on the city’s three-member election commission. That’s about 10% of the 150,000 ballots that were already mailed, Bluestein said.

Meanwhile, the city has opened seven of 10 planned satellite election offices to operate seven days a week.

Allegheny County, home to Pittsburgh, began hosting over-the-counter voting in the lobby of the county office building on Monday and said people who applied for mail-in ballots have started receiving them in the mail this week.

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