Posted on 10/17/2020 1:20:28 PM PDT by Twotone
In the immensely critical battleground state of Pennsylvania, approximately 372,000 mail-in ballots were rejected. The situation perplexed many voters, but officials say there is an explanation for the confusion.
ProPublica and the Philadelphia Inquirer co-published a report on Friday discovering that 372,000 mail-in ballots were rejected. Overall, one out of every five requests for mail-in ballots were rejected, according to the report.
However, 90% of those mail-in ballots, about 336,000, were denied as duplicates. The reason for the confusion is because people may have previously and unknowingly already requested a mail-in ballot for the November election.
Many Pennsylvanians who voted during the June primaries may have checked a box to request a mail-in ballot for the November election. Many may have requested a second ballot unwittingly.
The attempt to promote mail-in voting in June amidst the coronavirus pandemic has caused administrative headaches for election officials preparing for the general election.
"We basically have to treat them all the same," Bill Turner, acting elections director for Chester County, said. "We're taking a tremendous amount of staff time and effort only to find out it's a duplicate."
"The volume of calls we have been getting has been overwhelming," Marybeth Kuznik, elections director in Armstrong County, northeast of Pittsburgh, said. "It has been almost like a denial of service attack at times because it seemed that sometimes all I could get done was answer the phone!"
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372,000 requested a second ballot by accident?? Really...
Alternatively, perhaps many of these people wanted two ballots. Two votes are twice as good as one vote.
Wow, how does the affect the “Rs are only 20% of mail ins”
The reason for the confusion is because people may have previously and KNOWINGLY already requested a mail-in ballot for the November election.
Garbage article
Author confuses “applications” with “ballots”
Pro Publica = Maoist organization
Gee. they request a ballot and find out that they already got one and somehow will be voted for... But there is no real history of mail voting fraud..., right???
Maybe something else going on.
We typically vote absentee and registered early, however, I received the paperwork to register, not just once, but 8 times, and each time the paper work indicated it was simply verifying the record.
This is in CA.
The last time, I included a note indicating the multiple receipts sent and inquired as to why my first wasn’t adequate.
Last we heard from them.
Just received the actual Ca ballot.
The real reason for the confusion is that the author does not know if these are ballots or requests for ballots. Evidently, this story is about requests for ballots!
Registering invisible people !!!
Occam’s razor: if there were two requests for a ballot and voters are the second request either huge numbers of voters asked for a second ballot or someone else asked for the first ballot using their name. The simplest explanation: someone already voted for them.
MAIL-IN BALLOTS SIMPLY SUCK!
They just reported them as duplicate. That doesn’t mean they all voted twice. Some may have voted far more than twice.
Mail-ins should be handled as tho they were organ donor deliveries!
I would have sent two applications in myself: one by mail and one online ... just because I’d assume one of them will get screwed up and I won’t receive a ballot.
Gee - do all of the signatures look similar? 372,000 duplicates is a lot of reproduction!
Republicans should've put laws in place to protect election integrity when they were in power, both state and nationwide. They didn't. Vote fraud will erase millions of Trump votes. I hope he has people to put every single mail-in ballot under a microscope in any swing state that he potentially loses.
“The simplest explanation: someone already voted for them.”
Anyone know if they keep any record of how many people report they showed up to vote to be told they had already voted? I’m thinking this happens more than most would imagine.
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