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Celebrating crowds cheer USPS workers after Biden declared winner

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(CNN)People cheered US Postal Service workers in New York and New Jersey on Saturday after a days-long count of mailed-in ballots in key states finally led CNN and other news organizations to declare Joe Biden the winner of the presidential race.
Joe Altenau, who took a video of the scene in Brooklyn, said he’s “incredibly thankful for all the work the USPS has done to safely deliver millions of votes for Americans throughout the country during this pandemic.”

Pennsylvania alone, there were almost 2.6 million mailed-in ballots, according to the state’s election website. That’s 10 times the number of absentee ballots it receives in a normal election, officials said. USPS officials earlier told CNN they’ve handled tens of millions of ballots nationwide over the course of the election.
Because poll workers in Pennsylvania weren’t allowed to process those votes until election day, President Donald Trump ended that day with a comfortable margin over Biden.

More Democrats than Republicans voted absentee because of the pandemic though, and Trump’s lead slowly eroded there and elsewhere in the following days, with Biden ahead in the state by Friday morning. CNN and others projected Biden as the election winner on Saturday. source

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Mailmen and women are getting a huge pat on the back for their part in helping deliver votes in this election — and, in L.A., they’re also getting sprayed down with champagne. source