Posted on 11/08/2022 10:26:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Philadelphia agency that oversees elections said it will delay counting thousands of paper ballots after the polls close Tuesday night because of a lawsuit that accused it of being open to double counting.
The Philadelphia City Commissioners voted 2-1 at a special early morning meeting to reinstate a process called “poll book reconciliation,” which is designed to eliminate the duplication of in-person votes and those already cast as mail-in or absentee ballots.
The decision will delay in the vote count in one of the nation’s most hotly contested battleground states.
The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed on Oct. 27 by a conservative legal advocacy group, Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, that was created in July by prominent Republicans, including former attorney general William P. Barr and Karl Rove.
The suit challenged the election board’s decision to forego the reconciliation process, which the commissioners had said was no longer needed because other measures to detect duplicate ballots were in place. Officials said the reconciliation had not found any duplicate votes in the last three elections.
But the lawsuit argued that the process had caught 40 double votes in the 2020 presidential election, and that the increase in mail balloting in recent years made it more necessary, not less.
A Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court had ruled on Monday that the elections board did not have to reinstate the reconciliation process, saying it was too close to Election Day to make such a major change. But the judge, Anne Marie Coyle, sharply criticized the board’s decision, saying the commissioners’ decision had “failed to consider the harm to public perception of our electoral process” that their decision to abandon the process could cause.
Seth Bluestein, one of the three commissioners, said after the vote that the decision will mean that an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 paper ballots will not be counted on election night so that officials can make sure there is no double counting.
He said that Philadelphia was the only county in Pennsylvania to be targeted by the lawsuit.
“Ballots that we received after the latest updates to the poll books will not get counted tonight while we reconcile the in-person vote with those returned ballots to make sure there are no double votes of somebody voting by mail.”
Beware:
“Philadelphia says it will delay counting thousands of paper ballots
The decision will slow down the count in a hotly contested battleground state, where @JohnFetterman, a Democrat, & @DrOz, a Republican, are in a close Senate election”
https://t.co/pDnJaMgPYk https://t.co/6O6pre0I35 pic.twitter.com/U1lvEzAAWq— Prodigal (@ProdigalThe3rd) November 8, 2022
LOL!
It’s a total shit show on every election; same ol’, same ol’.
Who's going to do the checking? Same people that did the counting in 2020?
Absolutely. And the only way to prevent double-voting is to keep good voter logs, and check absentee ballots against those.
And it must be done (1) after the polls close, and (2) before the ballot is opened. Unless it can be done automated, (by a code on the label) each absentee ballot must be individually handled looked at by a person.
I voted in the town hall early, I received a ballot with a printed sticker on it, with my name, etc. I'd guess it could be scanned, and the voter log marked as "voted". If it showed I'd already voted in person, then it could be rejected. Those that were problematic or unreadable would be rejected for hand-processing. That would allow the thing to be done relatively quickly.
I work a poll when I was a kid. You got there early, 5 or 6 o'clock, and didn't leave until 11pm, if things went well. Even as a young man, I wiped out by the time we wrapped up. They should have a couple of shifts so they don't have to stop the counting process because the poll workers are exhausted.
No. I was being sarcastic. I should have indicated that.
Karl has been quiet for a while.
I had been wondering how The House of Bush would be reacting today.
Yes indeed! "Rove and Barr", two classic fellow travelers...
Another communist-supporting organization raises its ugly head to assist the PA election-fraud exercise...
The reason for the lawsuit is totally legit. It sounds like there is a hole in the system where a person can vote twice if they get an absentee ballot and then go vote in person. In 2020 it appears that there were 40 proven cases of this happening and once a loophole is found, you can count on it being exploited.
This “reconciliation” was supposedly the reason for delayed results.
Now doing away with it is the reason for delayed results.
All roads lead to Rome.
Hopefully we will se this today.
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