It's Election Day and you still have your mail-in ballot, so what can you do with it? There are two options and poll workers have said there is a recent history of people arguing with them over these mail-in ballots.

More than 4,000 mail ballot applications have been challenged across 14 Pennsylvania counties, leaving election officials to decide eligibility during hearings that will extend well past Election Day.

WBZ-TV got a first-hand look at how they do it at Belmont's town hall. That's where a collection of volunteers and full-time workers have been logging mail-in and early voting ballots. It's a process that's far more complicated than you may think. They're currently sorting through 4,000 mail-in ballots, all by hand.

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Just days after Election Day, right-wing activists and two Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania withdrew the majority of last-minute challenges filed against voters’ mail ballot applications. Around 77% of more than 4,

Mail ballots in Pennsylvania were counted much faster in this year’s election than in 2020 By 3 a.m. Wednesday, 54 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties had counted 90% or more of their mail ballots, according to data released by the state.