Critical swing states push for 'simple change' to make counting mail-in ballots easier.
. At a news conference Thursday, Jeff Snyder, president of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania and a Republican commissioner of Clinton County, called for pre-canvassing by saying that"if state leaders want to run the risk of negative national news coverage during a presidential election — in a battleground state — with anticipated high turnout, then they should do nothing.
"Given the political nature of the bill, it's unclear to us at this point whether we'll be able to just get a bill that speaks specifically to pre-canvassing to the governor's desk," she said. Trump"has basically suggested, if not suggested inferred, that any delay in counting reflects a fraudulent effort to undermine the election, which is absolute drivel, nonsense," Ridge said, adding that a delayed vote count would allow Trump to say:"'I told you so. There's something funny about those elected officials in Michigan and Pennsylvania.'""Once those envelopes are open, those ballots will be properly and securely stored away," she said.
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