Fewer Pennsylvanians are voting by mail in 2024 than they did in in the last presidential election, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through Election Day and beyond, the AP will deploy more than 4,000 freelancers to election offices around the country to track and tally counts in real time. They will call in those numbers to about 800 vote entry clerks, who crunch the numbers and check them for accuracy.

More than 1 million Pennsylvania voters have returned their mail ballots two weeks before the November 5 election. According to data provided by the Pennsylvania Department of State on October 22, county election officials have reported receiving 1,