Posted on 11/08/2022 9:04:54 AM PST by Red Badger
Pennsylvania’s Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate, John Fetterman, claimed that Democrats will stage a “comeback” after election day totals favor Republicans. The senate hopeful pointed to mail-in and absentee ballots, which cannot be counted until election day under Pennsylvania law. Still, many have questioned the validity of lengthy delays in counting votes, pointing to other states and foreign nations that count more votes in a shorter window of time.
“Counting for ballots cast by mail and early in-person cannot begin until Election Day, thanks to the GOP-controlled legislature — an intentional move to help Republicans baselessly sow doubt about the election results when it suits them,” Fetterman wrote in a memo to “interested parties,” The Washington Post reported.
“Pennsylvania is one of only eight states that bans pre-processing of early mail-in ballots, forcing county officials to wait until 7 a.m. on Tuesday to begin opening returned ballots and scanning them into the system,” he added.
Fetterman pointed to the more than 1.4 million mail-in ballots requested in Pennsylvania, which tend to skew towards Democrats. This is especially true in the Keystone State, as Spotlight PA recently reported that more than 70% of mail-in ballots requested came from registered Democrats.
“The biggest share of absentee and mail ballot requests came from Allegheny County [which includes Pittsburgh] and Philadelphia — nearly a quarter of the total,” Spotlight PA wrote.
In Pennsylvania, mail-in and absentee votes cannot be counted until polls open on election day. “Because Pennsylvania is one of the only states that reports Election Day totals first before ballots cast by mail, and because more populated counties around Philadelphia can take longer to report, we should expect one of the most dramatic shifts in the country from initial GOP support in early results to stronger Democratic gains as more votes are processed,” Fetterman said.
Election officials from Allegheny, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties told Spotlight PA that they expect to finish counting by Wednesday, the day after the election.
Like Fetterman, corporate media outlets and Democrats have repeatedly claimed that it is normal to have delays of multiple days, even weeks, when counting ballots. “Early election night results might not indicate final tallies (and why that’s OK),” reads a headline from ABC News that was published on Monday. Reuters, the Associated Press, NBC and CBS are among other major outlets that have run similar headlines over the past week.
Leigh Chapman, who currently serves as Pennsylvania’s acting Secretary of State, also told voters to expect delays.
“The best we can do is just manage expectations and let voters know that election officials need to do their job,” Chapman told Chuck Todd of Meet The Press. “They need to ensure that they’re counting every vote, and delays in results does not mean anything bad is happening. It doesn’t mean ballots are showing up out of nowhere. It’s because of that restriction where we can’t start preprocessing or canvassing those votes until election morning.”
Polls close in Pennsylvania at 8 p.m. eastern time.
“manage expectations”
In our “democracy” massive Democratic fraud is the “new normal”.
The “election deniers” need to get used to it.
:-(
Unmarked vans with boxes full of ballots arriving in northern tier counties from NY State in the wee hours of Wednesday morning... and Thursday... and, if necessary, Friday.
Stupid man speaks too much. He’s telling us the crime before it’s committed.
If the DEMs do this and Americans sit idly by and let it happen again, we deserve our demise.
I don’t think Dumb and Lumpy was supposed to say that.
The trucks of ballots are on the way.
There is no excuse to halt counting. Pa started counting mail in ballots I believe at 7am…. There is no excuse they should not have them counted todau
Here’s my quick math. If we assume roughly the same turnout as 2020, and we assume that 70% of the mail ins go to Fetterman (which I think is high, but lets run the numbers), Oz would need to win about 56% of the non-mail ins to win. Check my math, and my assumptions, but that is the landscape as I see it. (They cast about 6.8 million votes in 2020 in Pennsylvania during the presidential election).
The fix is in for Pennsylvania. They’re not even trying to hide it. They’re telling us they’re going to do it.
They always do. Funny how that happens.
After they close down, lock the doors and figure out how many votes the RATs need to win. In the dead of night, right before your eyes and then dare you to do something about it. All while the Stupid Party hides in the corner.
Sounds like Fetty is predicting a wooly mammoth stampede under the cover of darkness.
About as overt an admission to election fraud I’ve heard of so far.
Yep
Stalinists are good at “staging” late night “comebacks”. Of course, it only works if your party owns the national “media.’
LOL! How surprised will you be if there’s a water main break or a transformer failure?
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