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Crucial Provisional Ballots: Why Pennsylvania (and This Election) Isn’t Over
The American Spectator ^ | 11/07/2020 | PAUL KENGOR

Posted on 11/07/2020 3:33:44 PM PST by LibertyWoman

There’s big news breaking here in Pennsylvania, and most of the national media seems to be unaware. It’s the matter of Pennsylvania’s crucial (but heretofore largely ignored) provisional ballots, which could be decisive in pushing Donald Trump back into the lead in the state, or at least triggering a statewide recount.

But alas, this isn’t over, which brings me to the crucial matter of the provisional votes. I learned last evening that there are roughly 100,000 provisional ballots still out and uncounted in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defines a provisional ballot this way:

Sometimes county elections officials need more time to determine a voter’s eligibility to vote. Election officials may ask that voter to vote a provisional ballot. A provisional ballot records your vote while the county board of elections determines whether it can be counted.

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In other words, this ain’t over. And it’s why Donald Trump is absolutely right to not concede anything and to double check everything. All of the votes in Pennsylvania have not been counted.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2020; pennsylvania
This was posted at 11:35AM. I did a search but did not find another post.
1 posted on 11/07/2020 3:33:44 PM PST by LibertyWoman
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To: LibertyWoman

I love the euphemism “unaware”.

No.

It’s more like every single media outlet is a public relations worker for the DNC and left. Trump has a press conference? Hurry, let’s declare Biden the winner. Get Bush out there to congratulate Biden.


2 posted on 11/07/2020 3:37:46 PM PST by I still care (The left's goal never was tolerance. It always was fascism.)
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To: I still care

PA ignored 2 USSC orders what happened to that?


3 posted on 11/07/2020 3:45:50 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: LibertyWoman

I wonder how many of these provisional ballots were instances of registered voters for which Democrat fraudsters had sent in a mail-in ballot, but the voter showed up on Election Day.

The voter would be told he or she already voted. The voter would insist otherwise, and perhaps the poll workers gave them a provisional ballot to make them shut up and go away.


4 posted on 11/07/2020 3:46:05 PM PST by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss

In 2000 in the famous chad furor I was in Paris so I did an absentee ballot here in NJ.

The next election in 2002 I went to vote and my name was on a list of not being able to vote in person because I had received an absentee ballot. I was furious and had to go to the county registrar and she apologized but said that was the routine. Once on absentee you stayed on until you asked to get off..

She gave me a provisional ballot for the 2002 election.but I’m sure it never got counted. They tell me these are only counted if the election is close.

This time because of the virus there were no voting machines and everything was a paper ballot either mailed in or dropped off in a drop box.

Not that they needed it but I’m sure that of the race for one of the Democrat Senators or Congresspersons had gotten close, there would have been a reserve of paper ballots to compensate.


5 posted on 11/07/2020 4:08:25 PM PST by JeanLM (Obama proved melanin is just enough to win elections Trump proves being good is not enough..)
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To: LibertyWoman

Is PA a state where early mail in voters can go to the polls & vote a provisional to change candidtes from their mail in???


6 posted on 11/07/2020 4:11:05 PM PST by thinden
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

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7 posted on 11/07/2020 4:38:58 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: thinden

That I’m not sure of. It SHOULD be once you cast your ballot then thats it...too bad if you want to change


8 posted on 11/07/2020 4:39:07 PM PST by LibertyWoman ( TRUMP 2020, because...(see bumper sticker for the ending))
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To: LibertyWoman

It isn’t over by a long shot.


9 posted on 11/07/2020 7:11:22 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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