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After you apply for a mail ballot, a worker processes and approves the application, then prints and mails a ballot to you. Later, when you return the ballot, the bar code on the envelope is scanned to acknowledge that it was received, which updates the voter history.
All of that depends on workers manually updating the system, and they were usually dealing with a massive backlog of ballots and applications. That means, for example, that a ballot application could have been received days before it was processed, or a ballot could be received weeks or even months before it was marked as received.
A delay in processing the ballot after it was physically received could not cause it to be reported as having been received earlier than it was actually received. Just the opposite. It would cause it to be recorded later than it was actually received. The fact checkers appear to be think their readers are stupid -which they generally are.
Theoretically they could have been recorded as mailed out some time after they were actually mailed out, but I assume that has to be recorded immediately. They have to have accurate information in real time as to what ballots got sent out. Otherwise they wouldn't know not to send another one.
Politifact then points out that emails were sent to people that their ballot is on its way after they already got it. That appears to be deliberate deception on their part. It is not an explanation of how ballots could have been recorded as received before they were recorded as mailed out. Of course emails can be sent after the ballot was received by the voter. The email system has no way of knowing that it arrived. It's a totally irrelevant point that is apparently intended to confuse stupid people.
The database being old is another red herring.
The author has an appropriate last name. Depending on the pronunciation.
Failed English major “Lyin” Jonathan Lai is concerned enough about his party’s dirty election that he had to write this pile of pony cr@p about it.
Yo Jon you not getting paid today because we missed a manual step in the process and ya know sometimes the number just don’t add up.
They might be right but since they admit that it’s not a perfect system they shouldn’t have done it that way in the first place.
So, they should be able to produce 3,459,923 original paper ballots for us to go through.
I'd want Rudy Giuliani's team conducting the count. Otherwise, I will always know they lied.
How come “glitches” only favor democrats?
Thought it was me and maybe I was reading the gobly gook pedantic writings of a 3rd grader...
A COBOL legacy system ???
Who is jonathan lai?
The short of the argument is that they don’t actually know whether the claim is right or wrong, since the State’s records are flawed. Elsewhere the rebuttal is that the 4 largest counties still haven’t reported their total ballot intake two months after the election.
The state database must be fully updated before the first votes are cast or counted. Otherwise you don’t know if a particular vote is from someone who is entitled to vote. There might be some corrections afterwards, but they should be few in number. Then anyone who audits the votes, is working from that same database. Any subsequent changes would be held back until all auditing is done - or a copy of that database is archived for future reference.
Propaganda report to ensue: Philadelphia Inquirer
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I have a senae that for the propagandists what is actually written in an article with the words “fact check” in the title is far less important than the existence of the article. The acolytes see the article in their news feed, nod their heads knowlingly along with the author, shake thir heads disparagingly at the target and keep scrolling on.