Posted on 10/29/2020 10:38:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
York County election officials hope to count every available mail-in ballot and announce results before they go home late on Election Day.
Opening of mail-in ballots will begin at 7 a.m. on Election Day — the earliest Pennsylvania law allows. Mail-ins will then be processed by a sworn-in contingent of 75 people at a special location — being kept secret until Sunday — that allows space for social distancing.
It’s an expansion of the plan carried out during the June primary, when a contingent of 25 people processed 40,000 mail-in ballots, completing the task at about the same time as in-person votes became known. This time, the Republican-controlled county is prepared to count upwards of 92,000 mail-in votes.
“We figured triple the ballots, triple the effort,” York County spokesman Mark Walters said. “Our plan is to have them all counted on Election Day.”
Other counties are taking a different approach. In Cumberland County, officials don’t plan to begin counting mail-in ballots until 9 a.m. on the day after the election.
The ability to count mail-in votes by the end of Election Day or shortly thereafter may have major ramifications for the Nov 3. presidential election.
With the COVID-19 pandemic and a year-old Pennsylvania law making it easier to cast ballots by mail, there has been a historic surge in mail-in voting. It will pose a historic challenge in terms of counting them and reporting prompt results. More than 3 million voters requested mail-in ballots and about 2 million have been received.
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“Fracking and coal are our lifeblood...”
Philadelphia is outside the fracking area of Pee-Ay and since it doesn’t *seem* to directly affect Philly-area voters they largely ignore the economic arguments for it. Or rather they are vulnerable to the ecological arguments made by the DNC.
The Supreme Court will have a say in this.
Yes, I am aware of the decision to not take a second look at the PA Supreme Court decision. It does NOT prevent the SC from taking another look at what PA does after election day.
PA is Philadelphia and Pittsburg, separated by Alabama.
Philadelphia has a few refineries in the area that provide a bunch of jobs.
Fracked natural gas liquids are pipelined to Marcus Hook, south of Philly. Some Delaware County and adjoining county folks are hopping mad at pipeline improvements and expansion, although the county is already criss-crossed by pipelines. The local democrat governments are among the unhappy.
Correct-and the only thing that is new and different this ‘go-around’ is the fact that they have repeatedly and unambiguously shown us their hand.
I don’t know if that is hubris, stupidity or just gratuitous defiance... but NOW they have everyone’s undivided attention!!
It should not have been tolerated for SO long.
“Philadelphia has a few refineries in the area that provide a bunch of jobs.”
The old Sunoco refinery burned down you may recall.
My point exactly. There is a disconnect between Philly area voters when it comes to the overall economic interests of the commonwealth. They just don’t ‘get it’.
Counting ballots at a secret location? I hope poll watchers from both political parties are allowed in to monitor this ballot count and to observe that the election workers follow state law on is or is not a valid ballot marked as required.
Counting ballots at a secret location?
Read the article, they are going to announce the location on Sunday, probably for safety concerns. Poll watchers are always allowed to view counting, etc.
Cumberland County, Penn from wiki
For most of its history, Cumberland County has been a Republican Party stronghold in presidential elections, with only seven Democratic Party candidates having managed to win the county from 1888 to the present day. The most recent Democrat to win the county in a presidential election was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 as he won in a landslide statewide & nationally. As a testament to the county’s status as a Republican Party stronghold, Barack Obama in 2008 is the lone Democrat to win forty percent of the county’s votes since Johnson’s 1964 win.
Presidential election results
As of November 2008, there are 152,408 registered voters in Cumberland County.[15]
Republican: 78,568 (51.55%)
Democratic: 52,887 (34.70%)
Other Parties: 20,953 (13.75%)
The Republican Party has been dominant in Cumberland County politics since before the American Civil War, with the victories of Robert P. Casey for governor in 1990, Bob Casey Jr. for state treasurer in 2004 and Tom Wolf for governor in 2018 being among the few times where a statewide Democrat carried the county. The county commissioner majority, all row offices, and all legislative seats serving Cumberland are held by Republicans.
If Trump is leading PA at midnight, Cumberland County absentee ballots won’t matter.
From the County Board of Elections website:
2016
REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL . . . . . 166,965
BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL. . . . . . . 124,421
2016 Vote totals
PRESIDENTIAL
HILLARY CLINTON (DEM) . . . . . . 47,085
DONALD J TRUMP (REP). . . . . . . 69,076
DARRELL L CASTLE (CON) . . . . . . 542
JILL STEIN (GRN) . . . . . . . . 939
GARY JOHNSON (LIB) . . . . . . . 3,975
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 1,869
UNITED STATES SENATOR
VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN 1
KATIE MCGINTY (DEM) . . . . . . . 44,796
PAT TOOMEY (REP) . . . . . . . . 71,638
EDWARD T CLIFFORD III (LIB) . . . . 5,509
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 193
ATTORNEY GENERAL
VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN 1
JOSH SHAPIRO (DEM) . . . . . . . 47,185
JOHN RAFFERTY (REP) . . . . . . . 73,111
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 147
Interesting to note that Pat Toomey out polled Donald Trump and the Atty General candidate, John Rafferty out polled both of them.
You have me wrong. I’m not giving up. We can win the war without waging specific costly battles. If Republicans sink too many resources into one problem state like this, they divert efforts from more winnable states. We don’t need PA if we have the South and most of the swing states.
With Roberts on the court, I don’t think these arbitrary (open-ended?) extensions of ballot deadlines are going to be stopped. He has “Dr.” Falseie to defer to after all.
If only we could annex it to NJ....
“Past performance is no guarantee of future results”.........................
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