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A Democrat Bill To Process Mail Ballots Before Election Day Is Headed To Pennsylvania’s GOP-Run Senate
The Federalist ^ | 05/07/2024 | BRIANNA LYMAN

Posted on 05/07/2024 9:47:38 AM PDT by DFG

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Copy Article Link Share Article via Email After Pennsylvania House Democrats passed a bill that would allow mail-in ballots to be processed before Election Day, the bill heads to the Republican-led state Senate. A Republican Senate leader expressed concerns to The Federalist that the bill’s provisions would endanger “honest, transparent and secure elections.”

HB 847 was passed along party lines, 102-99, on Wednesday and would permit county election officials to begin opening and counting mail-in ballots and absentee ballots seven days before Election Day. The results would be tabulated on Election Day.

But Chairman of the Senate State Government Committee Sen. Cris Dush said in a statement to The Federalist that the Senate had previously rejected a similar pre-canvassing provision in March due to concerns of “pre-canvassing endangering honest, transparent and secure elections which remain the cornerstone of our Constitutional Republic.”

“Just like House Bill 847, this measure also failed to include proven election integrity safeguards such as constitutional Voter ID requirements or proof of citizenship for voter registration,” Dush continued. “With the next major election only months away, I will not commit to advancing any so-called election modification legislation that does not contain proven election integrity safeguards.”

Other Republicans also expressed concern about the legislation, with House Minority Leader Bryan Cutler saying the legislation would complicate election workers’ tasks since they would have to prepare for Election Day while also pre-canvassing, according to the Pennsylvania Capital Star.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: absentee; election; mailedballots; pennsylvania

1 posted on 05/07/2024 9:47:38 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Processing early is common

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-16-when-absentee-mail-ballot-processing-and-counting-can-begin

eg Florida

When Absentee/Mail Ballot Processing Can Begin
Upon receipt.

When Absentee/Mail Ballot Counting Can Begin
Upon the completion of the public testing of automatic tabulating equipment (which begins not more than 25 days before early voting commences). Releasing the results early is a felony.

This is why Florida is able to report most of their votes on election night.


2 posted on 05/07/2024 9:58:17 AM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: DFG

>>Pennsylvania House Democrats passed a bill that would allow mail-in ballots to be processed before Election Day

I thought the SCOTUS ruled that you can’t change the election laws in the middle of an election....


3 posted on 05/07/2024 10:01:38 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: DFG

That’ll give them a clue as to how many have to be “inserted” or “thrown out”.


4 posted on 05/07/2024 10:10:31 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: DFG

Here’s the problem...If you have to sign the outside of the mail in...it’s easy enough to look up your party registration. and “take action”.


5 posted on 05/07/2024 10:12:06 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Don’t give an inch. They wouldn’t.


6 posted on 05/07/2024 10:16:46 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DFG
How else are they going to have any idea how to scale up the fraud to overcome legally cast ballots if they can't get tallies in advance.

I know, I know. The Dominion machines that tally these machines are password protected, and only Democrat Hac...er...election officials have the auditable and appropriate permissions.

Never mind that in the Michigan Antrim County forensic analysis these were just some of the findings:

But, other than that...yeah. Should be safe and secure, so they couldn't use that pathway to learn how to scale their fraud.

7 posted on 05/07/2024 10:31:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Sacajaweau

In Michigan for the primary we just had, you had to request a Dem or Republican ballot. They are also numbered differently starting with first digit. Example all dems start with a 3 and Repubs start with a 4. So folks know up front whether it’s republican or dem ballot.


8 posted on 05/07/2024 10:57:06 AM PDT by Engedi
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To: DFG

That’s only so they know how many more ballots they have to manufacture for Joe on Election Day to give him Pennsylvania’s electors.


9 posted on 05/07/2024 10:59:21 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Engedi

What’s on the most outer return envelope?


10 posted on 05/07/2024 11:06:57 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau
That’ll give them a clue as to how many have to be “inserted” or “thrown out”.

Worse, it will give them time to "cure" the defective Biden ballots will ignoring the defective Trump ballots.

-PJ

11 posted on 05/07/2024 11:26:10 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: DFG

NO!!!!!


12 posted on 05/07/2024 11:37:30 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: JSM_Liberty
Processing early is common

If the election laws were applied equally and fairly throighout the state, this would be fine.

What happened in 2020 was nothing approaching equally applied and fair.

A lot of "nonpartisan" get out the vote money to sign up voters and do something similar to vote harvesting was distributed throughout PA, but largely concentrated in Dem strongholds.

Dem-heavy districts also contacted voters who screwed up their mail in ballot envelopes and allowed them to fix them ahead of time. This was against the letter of the law, but the law was ignored and poll workers permitted to contact the voters so they could fix their ballottes

13 posted on 05/07/2024 1:05:33 PM PDT by jz638
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To: DFG

County election officials to begin opening and CHANGING mail-in ballots and absentee ballots.

More like it rigging is a strong addiction.

That Fetterman boy mum on the deal.


14 posted on 05/07/2024 2:04:22 PM PDT by Vaduz
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