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Posted on 11/23/2020 9:43:34 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
At least five counties home to about 800,000 voters will not have election results certified when they're due Monday to the Pennsylvania Department of State, though three of them expect to wrap up within the next couple days.
Ultimately, minor delays in a handful of counties fully certifying their results shouldn't affect the overall certification process statewide — in part because the Pennsylvania's election code doesn't set a hard deadline for statewide certification by the Secretary of State, which is normally a formality, voting law experts say.
Of 43 counties to respond to WITF's inquiry, ten with a combined 546,000 voters had already fully certified their results and sent them to the state by Friday.
Another 28 counties with nearly 6.9 million of the state's 9 million registered voters confirmed they will hit Monday's deadline.
Schuylkill County officials say they will wrap up Tuesday, while Westmoreland County doesn't expect to finish until next week due to pandemic-driven staffing shortages and a tight state Senate race. Berks, Carbon and Luzerne election boards are scheduled to certify Wednesday.
"Sometimes counties lag behind – that's not unusual," said Marian Schneider of the Pennsylvania branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. Schneider is a former deputy secretary for elections and administration at Pennsylvania's Department of State.
Schneider said that's especially true when counties are dealing with recounts, close races or litigation over election board decisions, such as the cases out of Philadelphia and Allegheny and Bucks counties.
That's on top of the other factors complicating vote counts statewide: other lawsuits, the pandemic, thousands of provisional ballot challenges and the explosion of vote-by-mail atop the rollout of new voting laws and machines expected, since a year ago, to pose challenges in 2020.
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Some obxxx judge will grant them an extension. I know that’s not what they do but, they do it anyway. Constitution? Bwahahahaha!
Then don’t certify, you dumb-dumbs!!!!
Do hand recounts, or let the Supreme Court settle your elector situation!!!!
Keep throwing sand in the gears, Pennsylvania.
Nowhere was the cheating more brazen then PA. The GOP legislature should reject the certifications and the SC should block this stolen election. Barr is nowhere and I see nothing to give hope. Alito’s order was ignored and everyone is calling Biden P elect. I am just disgusted and fed up.
I’m so disgusted too. However, God gets the last word.
Deadlines? More like, guidelines.
Can these two statements be proven?
“Trump won the largest non-white vote share for a Republican presidential candidate in 60 years. Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in every major metro area around the country, save for Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta and Philadelphia.”
If so, then there is good reason to doubt the legitimacy of the 2020 Presdiential election.
To much fraud in the counts.
Surrender NOW!
Or fight back.
I have tuned out for the last week for my own sanity. The father of lies is having a field day with the world at the moment. The Lord will set things right when it is time. Right about now would be good.
Pennsylvania Ping!
Please ping me with articles of interest.
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Or fight back.”
I have tried to pressure the local GOP and contributed as much as I can reasonably afford. I get 15 pleas for money a day from the GOP every one of them is for the GA runoff. Not one is to help the President fight the stolen election, not one. It tells me they got what they wanted. They got rid of Trump and they think they kept the majority in the Senate. Well f them.
Amen. Hang in there, Brother.
The PA House is not is a position to accept or reject the certification. The Secretary of State is.
The Legislature defined the process and would need a court ruling the certification cannot be done or was done in an invalid manner for them to intervene, as I read the PA Statute.
Monday like today, or Monday like next Monday?
Since the legislators had no art in changing election laws the legislators have gone to court to STOP certification!!}
Under current stat law the legislature neither approves or rejects the certification. And while today is the target date for state certification it's not a set in stone date. Pennsylvania will certify the vote well before the Electoral College vote in a couple of weeks.
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