, and PhiladelphiaHere in the birthplace of American democracy, election officials are scrambling to prepare for a presidential vote they fear could plunge the nation into a historic political crisis.Philadelphia’s Board of Elections plans to move its counting operations to a 125,000-square foot space in the city’s convention centre. Dozens of staffers, feeding expensive new machines to open envelopes and process mail-in ballots, will spend days tallying hundreds of thousands of votes – under intense scrutiny from partisan observers. The workers likely will discard thousands of ballots that...…, and PhiladelphiaHere in the birthplace of American democracy, election officials are scrambling to prepare for a presidential vote they fear could plunge the nation into a historic political crisis.Philadelphia’s Board of Elections plans to move its counting operations to a 125,000-square foot space in the city’s convention centre. Dozens of staffers, feeding expensive new machines to open envelopes and process mail-in ballots, will spend days tallying hundreds of thousands of votes – under intense scrutiny from partisan observers. The workers likely will discard thousands of ballots that...WW…