Delays in verifying mail-in ballots will slow election tally
Voters awaiting results in some of the key presidential battleground states on election night should be prepared to keep waiting, thanks to obstacles that will slow the count for what is expected to be a crush of mailed-in ballots amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pennsylvania is expected to see 3 million or more mail-in ballots — half of this year’s total and a ten-fold increase from 2016. Registered Democrats are applying at a rate of nearly 3 to 1 over Republicans. During a recent rally in Pennsylvania, Trump said the only way he will lose the state is if Democrats “steal the election.”
Johnson said allotting additional days would have been difficult because the new law will require volunteer election inspectors from both major political parties to observe the removal of ballots from their outer envelopes.Still, the timing is tight. The day before election day already is a busy one for local election officials scrambling to get ready for in-person voters.
But the judge was unmoved, noting in a September ruling that state law already allows for errors made on the outside of absentee ballots to be corrected before election day. It is on the outside of the ballot that voters must have a witness signature, address and date, the source of most of the errors seen in absentee ballots.The judge also said that extending the deadline for counting absentee ballots by six days — a ruling Republicans vowed to appeal to the U.S.
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