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Posted on 10/21/2020 7:49:00 PM PDT by 11th_VA
HARRISBURG — Negotiations between the Republican-led legislature and Gov. Tom Wolf to let counties begin opening mail ballots in Pennsylvania before Election Day appeared to collapse Wednesday, setting up a potential nightmare scenario that some fear could leaving the state counting millions of ballots for days after Nov. 3.
The Democratic governor and legislative leaders had been negotiating behind closed doors as recently as Tuesday to change the election code after months of inaction. But the General Assembly adjourned Wednesday and is not scheduled to reconvene until Nov. 10, a week after the election.
In adjourning, Republicans turned away pleas from county elections officials across the state, who said allowing them to open ballots before Election Day would reduce the staffing strain and administrative headaches on top of whatever issues they’re dealing with during in-person voting.
Without a deal, the days-long process of counting mail ballots can’t begin until 7 a.m. on Election Day, potentially leaving the results unclear for days and opening room for candidates to falsely declare victory. As the day ended, both sides were left pointing fingers...
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Note - PA republicans are NOT voting by mail (less than any other state). Trump will be far ahead on election night ...
You can’t have ballots opened before Election Day, as this would give dishonest election workers an opportunity to send them back to the voters for “corrections.”
Screw that.
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Follow the law or change the law.
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“this would give dishonest election workers an opportunity to send them back to the voters”
OR throw ballots in the trash, OR advise RATs activists how many ballots must be phonied up to surpass GOP ballots.
Not sure this is a big deal either way.
Wouldn’t we normally be counting votes in a NON-banana republic starting ACTUAL legitimate Election Day? What difference does that make? Do they really think the vote count will increase because of all these banana-republic allowances?
BTW, the claim is that Monty Co. in MD is filling in obvious picks that weren’t marked fully (fill in your circle). Of course, it IS Monty Co. so I wouldn’t put anything past them. Limo liberals.
Better have conservative poll watchers and lawyers there.
What did they think was going to happened with tons of mail in ballots?
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LEFTist reporting by Philly paper so it is all the fault of the GOP-controlled Legislature leaders. Poor, innocent Gov.Wolfie!
Huge deal. Once they start opening ballots they know who to gin up.
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