Provisional and late arriving absentee votes get very close inspection before they are added to the countywide totals. This is because our election boards are balanced and scrupulously honest. As a result, you can look at our county abstracts and see a TOTAL of around 100 votes (roughly one for every three precincts) added to the county totals from these sources. By the way, we are not a Podunk rural county. We are one of the larger suburban ring counties around Pittsburgh.
If Philadelphia adhered to the same standards of honesty which we do, one could expect around 2500 TOTAL votes added from these sources. A net 20,000 votes for one candidate . . . No way!
Pittsburgh and surrounding counties are tiny in population compared to Philly and surrounding counties.
Thank you sir!
billyboy15 is full of crap, and I’m not buying 20 thousand votes not counted for one second.
Hmm, I stand corrected. I thought Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware, etc., counties would be much higher in population than counties surrounding Allegheny, but they really aren’t.
Sorry but philly has over 1.5 million residents compared to Westmorelands 360k. 20,000 provisional or absentee ballots in philly is absolutely correct and believable.
Hillary also got over 80% of the vote there winning by more than 450k.
There is always fraud in philly, and the fact she performed as well in philly as Barack, even though she managed not to do that anywhere else in the country is a pretty good indication fraud once again happened there, but these 20k votes or so aren’t evidence of it.
When are the votes certified in PA?
Actually correct. Vote totals for Both Trump and Clinton went up, but the difference was larger, i.e. 20,000.
At election to now, Trump went from 2.912 MM to 2.965 MM
Clinton went from 2.844 MM to 2.917 MM
Thus the change from 68 K difference to about 48 K. Some other counties are still tallying their absentee votes, which are going more for Trump.