Submitted by krabstarr t3_yiaq6d in Pennsylvania
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billfriedman9987 t1_iuhtsmk wrote
Can you feel it? The election bullshit is coming.
Silver-Hburg t1_iuhtysd wrote
They aren’t even sending legitimate absentee ballots. I’ve been “approved” since 8/29 but Lebanon county still hasn’t bothered to mail my ballot even after several phone calls.
WinterWontStopComing t1_iuhusjs wrote
It never left
RDGCompany t1_iuhvl1b wrote
In Bucks I received my ballot in a timely manner and was emailed when they received it back. Their communication the whole time was good. Emails tracking the process all the way.
Bucks, in my mind, is doing it right.
Odd_Description_2295 t1_iuhvlrw wrote
Oz drinks his own piss
ell0bo t1_iuhvz4l wrote
Weird, I got mine and already returned it. This county...
oldschoolskater t1_iuhvzbu wrote
With mail in voting bigger than ever, and counting not happening until election day, confidence will be low the longer it takes.
tuenthe463 t1_iuhx17o wrote
As long as it's said louder it means they did.
finally_joined t1_iuhxu4f wrote
Same in Erie County so far.
ParfaitMajestic5339 t1_iuhy2vd wrote
Montco too. Put it into the mailbox on one day and got the receipt in my email the next.
PaApprazer t1_iuhyi98 wrote
Lol, ok … not really. Most people understand the process
LordKaraka12 t1_iuhysce wrote
Sad but conservatives will believe whatever they want. You can show them irrefutable empirical evidence and they will simply deny it bc it doesn’t align with their world view.
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oldschoolskater t1_iuhyxu2 wrote
If we would join the 38 states who count early we could have it mostly wrapped up by election night.
nesquiksand2 t1_iuhz04k wrote
My dad, who lives in rural pa, was convinced they sent him multiple election ballots.
I had to explain to him that they were registrations to vote.
reddit_mouse t1_iui0255 wrote
Same in York Co.
billfriedman9987 t1_iui03zp wrote
Like the old ways where we know who won on election night? Wow, wouldn't that be great.
PaApprazer t1_iui0lir wrote
What part of increased use of mail-in voting are you not understanding? Why is election night results a requirement? Wouldn’t knowing all legally cast votes are counted be the goal? smfh
Thecrawsome t1_iui0myb wrote
Bucks did it right this time for me too. But when I lived in Bensalem they never sent me mine and i had to vote in person by provisional
PaApprazer t1_iui0wbw wrote
If … there are all kinds that I would like to see come true before early counting in PA
oldschoolskater t1_iui26mx wrote
We could know almost all legally cast votes on election night just like other states already do. Wouldn't you prefer that to the system that we use that causes doubt the longer it takes?
PPQue6 t1_iui28u1 wrote
Our county actually does a pretty good job with elections. I've been voting for the past 19 years now and I've never had any issues at all.
crazypants9 t1_iui2pg7 wrote
The GOP has a platform. Destroy integrity and decency. Plant suspicion. Divide America. Seize power. Refuse the facts and truth. It’s dangerous and serves only our enemies.
Finrodsrod t1_iui2qlm wrote
Why? Because it's sterile and he likes the taste!
bk1285 t1_iui2sb6 wrote
If only there wasn’t a certain group preventing that from happening
Fuzzy_South_4260 t1_iui30j4 wrote
Lackawanna County...perfect job, well done!
JoshuaIan t1_iui3acw wrote
I'm honestly not sure if this is sarcasm, but knowing who won on election night itself wasn't really a thing for most of our history.
Mijbr090490 t1_iui3fug wrote
You mean the same group who voted for mail in ballots to begin with?
JoshuaIan t1_iui3it0 wrote
There's an entire media cult that has used psychology and propaganda to build this over the past 40 years. This wasn't an accident - this was purposeful manipulation of human nature.
Which is, in and of itself, I guess, human nature. It just sucks that we evidently used to be smart enough to know and demand better as a society, and as a result, we did greater things as a society. I wonder what we could have been capable of without the rise of this media cult taking over our culture.
Reynolds_Live t1_iui3p2c wrote
Thing is even if they did it wouldn’t be counted anyway. Morons who believe this don’t realize that each vote is verified heavily.
Critical_Band5649 t1_iui46dg wrote
Who immediately turned around the next year and said mail in ballots were suddenly unconstitutional.
BeerExchange t1_iui4m0i wrote
Same in Centre county. I dropped mine off at the county building since drop boxes were not open yet.
artisanrox t1_iui4p0c wrote
Fascists...hating the opinion of the public since autocracy was invented.
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AlVic40117560_ t1_iui5ey4 wrote
I had the same experience in Montgomery
Mijbr090490 t1_iui5i7s wrote
That's the group. Sorry bunch of geezers.
KyleRichXV t1_iui63wx wrote
And doesn’t mind sleeping with cousins.
all4whatnot t1_iui7ls0 wrote
Exact same in Delco
all4whatnot t1_iui7vt3 wrote
As much as I'd hate to see those split results, that outcome has crossed my mind. Trump will sue to say that Mastriano won and then have no explanation as to why Oz won if the vote was rigged.
PaApprazer t1_iui8c5k wrote
We could know almost all? Lol, yeah would should change for an almost
JazzFan1998 t1_iui9gfy wrote
Same in Philadelphia, I got an email verification last week.
oldschoolskater t1_iui9ht7 wrote
When you confirm enough votes on election night and the remaining ones can't overcome the difference they can call the election. If there isn't enough then you wait. That's the way it's always worked. With the large amount of mail in happening now it gets more difficult so we wait. The longer it takes the more doubt is built in voters minds.
justasque t1_iuia5h8 wrote
I think there are good reasons to not count early. Eliminates concerns about someone in on the process finding out their party's votes are low, and pushing for greater turnout. If people don't understand that it takes time to count votes, that can be addressed with more public education. If they can't understand it, there's not a lot we can do, and they will be the first to create a conspiracy theory about insiders knowing the count early if we change the process - there's no satisfying those folks.
CaseyCahoots t1_iuial1c wrote
That's good to hear. I've had the pleasure of meeting almost all the election directors listed in this comment chain and they are all wonderful and competent folks. Glad most are having good experiences. County elections offices get it right like 99.9% of the time, but 0.01% 300k registered voters in York is still 300 angry phone calls. Nice to hear kudos for once.
PaApprazer t1_iuiaml2 wrote
Doubt about what, the process?
You reap what you sow
Mor_Tearach t1_iuibegr wrote
I managed to get reported for ' threats ' by saying I'd get a lawyer if anyone nullifies my vote. Someone please explain to me how getting a lawyer to protect my right to vote is in any way a ' threat ' ?
oldschoolskater t1_iuibftq wrote
Seems like doubt is the intended purpose when you wait till election day to count.
KFCConspiracy t1_iuibn2u wrote
I've talked to a lot of voters this election season canvassing, there's a shocking number of them planning to vote for Shapiro and Oz. I'm not sure whether I should be glad that they're just not voting for Mastriano, or upset that they're not also voting for Fetterman (because Oz during the primary has espoused the same standard GOP crazy shit they all espouse). Those voters could be Shapiro's margin of victory, but they're also probably, if Oz wins, Oz's margin of victory.
billfriedman9987 t1_iuie9hj wrote
That’s the problem, mail in votes are prone to fraud attempts.
Silver-Hburg t1_iuigaia wrote
Indeed. I am making a trip home this weekend my employer is giving me the time off to drive up and back. Crazy expensive to fly last minute
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MoreOfAGrower t1_iuigygh wrote
But his daughters won’t sleep with him because he smells like piss
RDGCompany t1_iuiief3 wrote
Replying to my own reply.
I may not vote in person again. It makes for a calm deliberative decision. I don't have to worry about going after work when I'm exhausted and not thinking clearly. Becomes less of a chore.
ho_merjpimpson t1_iuiiu8u wrote
berks weighing in. it was perfect.
the only thing i would change is a more obvious way to check your application status prior to receiving the ballot. i didnt take screen shots or write down the process, but by memory, it was a little unobvious that my mother, in fact, elected to receive her mail in ballot back in feb.
like, all i remember is that finding this page
https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/pages/voterregistrationstatus.aspx
was easy. but it should include a link to THIS page:
https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/pages/ballottracking.aspx
which i tracked down, but my mother, or anyone not born in the internet age, would likely not find.
and then when i got to the latter page, whatever "status" that was showing for her wasnt defined well enough for us to be confident that she would be receiving a mail in ballot. it turns out that she didnt apply, so she applied, and still currently shows as "pending"... which after calling means it should be on the way, but might not be here in time, which means she will have to drop it off in person... which sucks because she is post transplant and tries to avoid crowds.
Icy_Blackberry_3759 t1_iuij5bx wrote
This anti-democracy propaganda from Republicans is fucking terrifying.
Is this going to be forever? They found they can create loyalty by pushing this most extreme conspiracy, and now that’s their bread and butter?
PaApprazer t1_iuijhfh wrote
Seems like waiting until Election Day to count is the law
PaApprazer t1_iuijqt8 wrote
Said every election denier without a shred of proof … well, except for the countless examples of republican voters committing fraud.
gregarious119 t1_iuijsjb wrote
This doesn't seem like that unlikely of a scenario.
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oldschoolskater t1_iuiltr8 wrote
Seems it still is for 12 states.
sashslingingslasher t1_iuin4f6 wrote
Same bullshit I'm sure. I remembered leading up to 2020, people posting pictures of a bunch of ballot request forms claiming they were ballots.
"I got all the ballots from all the people who lived in my apartment before me!"
No you didn't.
Libsoccer20 t1_iuinasv wrote
Get ready for the GOP stolen election propaganda
ScottEATF t1_iuio3bg wrote
And your evidence of this is?
atomicgirl78 t1_iuiochy wrote
As someone trying to get registered lemme tell ya it’s a bitch. I have been trying since June and I am still not registered. Most recently I got a form because I could not be verified because their machine read my birthday wrong. Arghh. Is it because I am a Dem or because the system is stupid and should be allowed to do it all online?
Guntcher1423 t1_iuioed7 wrote
Lies and half truths are all these mean spirited assholes got. No policy. No ideas to solve problems. They got nothing but bigotry and hatred.
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InterLoper610 t1_iuioynr wrote
Maybe in your fantasy world that's true, in the real world election fraud is so rare that it basically doesn't exist. Surely you have a ton of evidence to back up this claim?
emogu84 t1_iuisw76 wrote
I got mine fine this cycle in Northampton Co, but the 2020 election was a month after we moved houses (within the same county and district, but new polling place). My wife got her mail ballot properly, but mine was forwarded to me by USPS cause it had the old address printed on it. I ended up deciding to cast a provisional ballot on election day rather than chance it. Went to my new polling place and they didn't have a ballot for me, so I had to go back to my old polling place to cast my vote.
Such a shitshow, especially when my wife's info updated correctly and didn't have to deal with any of it. And we're in a blue area of our purple district, near a college campus, so I had my tinfoil hat on for a while after.
mistercrinkles t1_iuit97l wrote
But someone did send me 255k flyers bad mouthing Fetterman this month lol
PierogiPowered t1_iuitd5h wrote
Get ready. It's never stopped.
mhatters t1_iuivyam wrote
Chester - perfect as well, I love the email confirmation!
alaska1415 t1_iuiw3nn wrote
It’s making the case for only in person voting by…..correcting that there weren’t 250,000 ballots sent out to unregistered people?
billfriedman9987 t1_iuiw4dx wrote
There are fraud problems with mail-in absentee ballots but the problems with universal mail-in ballots are much more significant. Still most countries ban even absentee ballots for people living in their countries.
Most developed countries ban absentee ballots unless the citizen is living abroad or require Photo-IDs to obtain those ballots. Even higher percentages of European Union or other European countries ban absentee for in country voters. In addition, some countries that allow voting by mail for citizens living the country don’t allow it for everyone. For example, Japan and Poland have limited mail-in voting to those who have special certificates verifying that they are disabled.
France has made an exception in 2020 to the ban absentee ballots to those who are sick or at particular risk during the Coronavirus pandemic. Poland and two cities in Russia have adopted mail-in ballots for elections this year only, but most countries haven't changed their regulations.
billfriedman9987 t1_iuiwix6 wrote
Absentee ballots =! Universal mail in ballots.
Simply put, it’s like a blank check that can be falsified, duplicated and corrupted.
Absentee ballots are requested for each voter. These are fine. It’s the universal ballots that are prone to fraud
billfriedman9987 t1_iuiwmlh wrote
billfriedman9987 t1_iuiwpp5 wrote
Absentee ballots are fine and secure
Universal mail in ballots are not.
InterLoper610 t1_iuiwyc3 wrote
I missed the part where you supported your wild claims with actual evidence.
billfriedman9987 t1_iuixfpv wrote
Of the 47 countries in Europe, a staggering 46 require government-issued photo IDs for in-person voting. The only exception is the United Kingdom, where a photo ID is required for national elections in Northern Ireland but not for Scotland, Wales, and England. Both Canada and Mexico require a government-issued photo ID. Mexico goes a step farther by making its ID biometric with both photo and fingerprints.
European, Canadian, and Mexican absentee ballot laws are much more restrictive than ours. None automatically sends absentee ballots to all registered voters.
You know why? Because In doing so you open your election to fraud.
InterLoper610 t1_iuixul1 wrote
Also not actual evidence of your nonsense claims. Gee Im beginning to think that you aren't actually citing evidence here.
rivershimmer t1_iuiy3e9 wrote
Talk to our Republican-led Congress, the ones who ruled we could not prep or count mail-in votes prior to Election Day. Maybe you can get them to change that law that they created.
billfriedman9987 t1_iuiy6pm wrote
You are delusional if you don’t see the issue with a. Universal mail in ballot. What im saying is there is a reason why no other developed country allows for it.
Absentee ballots that are requested are not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the 2020 universal mail in ballots. The pandemic is over, it’s time to go back to the previous system
PaApprazer t1_iuiz7ur wrote
Lol, I’ll consider that your opinion without proof. We all know what they say about opinions …
rivershimmer t1_iuizc1z wrote
I don't think it's a fair comparison, the spread-out USA to more compact, densely populated, highly urbanized nations with excellent public transportation like Japan or France. A better comparison would be to Canada or Australia, geographically big countries with lots of citizens living in the boonies. And both those countries offer mail-in voting.
billfriedman9987 t1_iuizez8 wrote
It’s not just my opinion, it’s the opinion of every industrialized nation outside the US
rivershimmer t1_iuizkyk wrote
> Simply put, it’s like a blank check that can be falsified, duplicated and corrupted.
Sure, but we don't ban checks because of the potential for abuse. You want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
billfriedman9987 t1_iuizqvw wrote
PaApprazer t1_iuj0b1g wrote
Let’s just stick with you … so, give me an example and what resulted from the fraud you are speaking about?
rivershimmer t1_iuj0b7t wrote
I see I've left you speechless.
billfriedman9987 t1_iuj0xad wrote
Yes, idiotic comparisons generally do.
You realize checks have identifying information on them, correct?
These universal ballots do not.
rivershimmer t1_iuj1nbe wrote
Except, as so many Republican voters discovered in 2020 when they were arrested for double-voting or voting for their dead relatives, it's pretty easy to zero in on criminals who think they gaming the system. Every ballot is going to come in an envelope with someone's name on it. Easy enough to figure out if it's a legit vote.
KrazySunshine t1_iuj3kra wrote
Same in Northampton County
bReezeyDoesit t1_iuj40ul wrote
Works the same all over the state.
bReezeyDoesit t1_iuj4hv5 wrote
Right, Republicans spending a ton of money on a smear campaign on Fetterman. Reminds me of the similar campaign against AOC.
Deacon_Blues1 t1_iuj657y wrote
Can you cite the fraud?
Deacon_Blues1 t1_iuj6aom wrote
You got nothing and can not cite anything. Please prove me wrong
MetaphysicalMayhem t1_iuj80p9 wrote
Every.Single.Mail-in.Ballot.Sent. has a complete record that’s accessible via pavoterservices.pa.gov. That was also true in 2020. I’m just absolutely sick of this MAGA madness. But once again, there will be a “red mirage” in PA because as a matter of principle and/or convenience, we anti-MAGAs are mostly casting our votes by mail, and they can’t start counting them until Election Day. I just dropped my ballot off in person at the county elections office.
Deal with it, MAGAs. You’ll mostly lose again in PA, just like 2020. Shapiro and Fetterman will win. Here in the PA first congressional district, RINO GOP Rep. Fitzpatrick will probably also win on the same ballots. Quit whining and threatening. You.Are.Not.The.Majority.
JKsoloman5000 t1_iuj9j3g wrote
They can say whatever they want and it’s automatically true for a large portion of the population. No amount of evidence would change their minds. We live in a post truth reality
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David511us t1_iuja5z5 wrote
Chester County here. Same experience, no issues.
gavum t1_iujb3jm wrote
bro saaaaame
Boating_with_Ra t1_iujbiqx wrote
Can you explain what the difference is between an absentee ballot and a mail ballot? Why is one more secure than the other?
Prestigious-Buy1774 t1_iujc9ny wrote
The opposite could also happen. If voters see a wider margin they may not vote Because they think their vote would Not make a difference anyway. Everyone eligible should vote. But don't count the votes until election day To truly show what the voters want. It will make it more important for them if they do not know anything ahead of time
51stStar t1_iujcryg wrote
"Sociopaths sowing conspiracy theories to angry and unstable randos in hopes that they kill elected officials with hammers" season is almost upon us.
Do your part and don't indulge the angry and unstable randos in your life, set them straight.
Prestigious-Buy1774 t1_iujctbc wrote
I decided I would not take the chance on any of these problems occurring. I simply cast my ballot on election day in person and I know it will be counted properly. If I was out of the area I would cast an absentee Ballot because that is a bit of a different process
Prestigious-Buy1774 t1_iujdifr wrote
P .S. ... My mom died in 2020. She still received a ballot to vote. I shredded it up And informed the polling workers when I went to vote myself. They wanted the extra ballot back. So I told her no, I shredded it up so no one else could get their hands on it. They didn't give me any problem but looked surprised when I told Them no. I felt in my conscience it was the right thing to do and also the safest given the conditions
appleslady13 t1_iuje1ut wrote
Adams did the same. And they've said they expect to be done counting mail-in/absentee ballots by the afternoon on election day, which is also awesome.
appleslady13 t1_iuje8wx wrote
Additionally, you can Google about any candidates in races you didn't know about (raising my hand that I've done this lol). Like judges, that kind of thing.
DirectGoose t1_iujfa2r wrote
I'm in Bucks County and mine came today.
cpr4life8 t1_iujfk21 wrote
Which is why the PA GOP state legislature won't allow early counting. They want that doubt. They need that doubt.
appleslady13 t1_iujfroj wrote
What's the difference in process for absentee and mail-in ballots? At this point I don't think there's actually a difference, but I'm happy to learn otherwise.
cpr4life8 t1_iujftom wrote
And absolutely not on a scale significant enough to sway election results.
cpr4life8 t1_iujfzsk wrote
Each ballot has a fucking unique bar code on it. 🙄
Dunn_or_what t1_iujm3ll wrote
Coming? It hasn't stopped in 3 years!
and_another_username t1_iujmfq8 wrote
Wow. Fact check: “false”.
They DID send 255k ballots to unverified voters. But they say they will totally “verify later”. And that they “totally don’t count ballots before voter verified. Bc trust us”
How can u send a ballot before verified at all?! How is this the procedure ? That’s fucked If a voter’s identification can’t be verified at the time they apply for a ballot, state law does require that the voter still be issued a ballot and be provided an opportunity until the sixth day after the election to provide the proper proof of identification. But counties are not to count the ballot unless the voter provides proof of identification.
This is some shady shit. You should absolutely not get a ballot until verified. And give up to 6 days AFTER election? Smells like bullsht Why is PA always with the worst ballot procedure?
BobcatBarry t1_iujqacw wrote
Just because they count early doesn’t mean they have to release a running total.
Unethical_GOP t1_iujqjml wrote
Butler checking in…I got mine 2 weeks ago, filled it out and sent it back. Got the email from the county saying my ballot was received.
billfriedman9987 t1_iujqk30 wrote
You are missing the point.
With an absentee ballot, you provide information, you sign a form, and they mail one to you to fill out. It is uniquely tied to you and your name and signature is associated with the vote. You requested the ballot and turned it in. This is fine and has been a common practice for years for those who are out of state or medically unable to vote. There is also the no-excuse category, which again, I'm fine with, but it follows the same process but there is no actual reason other than convenience for this service. This is ok.
What is not ok is universal mail in ballots, where they are sent to every single voter. This sounds good on paper, right? But it has a lot of issues associated with it.
Because of widespread inaccuracies in a state’s voter registration records, a state that sends ballots to all registered voters will inadvertently send ballots to persons ineligible to vote or others with fake registrations, invalid registrations, outdated registrations, and to the deceased.
Furthermore, with this type of carpet-bomb approach, it lends to ballot harvesting which if you are unfamiliar is the practice of collecting ballots from large groups of people and submitting them en-masse, often times empowered by political candidates and in doing so alter the legitimacy of those ballots.
There is a reason that no industrialized nation condones universal mail in ballots. This is not just a democratic or republican issue; this is an issue that impacts all of us.
billfriedman9987 t1_iujqstj wrote
I actually just posted this in another reply so here it is.
With an absentee ballot, you provide information, you sign a form, and they mail one to you to fill out. It is uniquely tied to you and your name and signature is associated with the vote. You requested the ballot and turned it in. This is fine and has been a common practice for years for those who are out of state or medically unable to vote. There is also the no-excuse category, which again, I'm fine with, but it follows the same process but there is no actual reason other than convenience for this service. This is ok.
What is not ok is universal mail in ballots, where they are sent to every single voter. This sounds good on paper, right? But it has a lot of issues associated with it.
Because of widespread inaccuracies in a state’s voter registration records, a state that sends ballots to all registered voters will inadvertently send ballots to persons ineligible to vote or others with fake registrations, invalid registrations, outdated registrations, and to the deceased.
Furthermore, with this type of carpet-bomb approach, it lends to ballot harvesting which if you are unfamiliar is the practice of collecting ballots from large groups of people and submitting them en-masse, often times empowered by political candidates and in doing so alter the legitimacy of those ballots.
There is a reason that no industrialized nation condones universal mail in ballots. This is not just a democratic or republican issue; this is an issue that impacts all of us.
BobcatBarry t1_iujqto3 wrote
Through American history, the news networks calling an election reflected their predictions, not total counts. Just like Fox called Arizona for Biden before they finished counting, they used a combination of precincts reported, their own exit polls, and math to figure out who won before the official count was in.
billfriedman9987 t1_iujqu5i wrote
With an absentee ballot, you provide information, you sign a form, and they mail one to you to fill out. It is uniquely tied to you and your name and signature is associated with the vote. You requested the ballot and turned it in. This is fine and has been a common practice for years for those who are out of state or medically unable to vote. There is also the no-excuse category, which again, I'm fine with, but it follows the same process but there is no actual reason other than convenience for this service. This is ok.
What is not ok is universal mail in ballots, where they are sent to every single voter. This sounds good on paper, right? But it has a lot of issues associated with it.
Because of widespread inaccuracies in a state’s voter registration records, a state that sends ballots to all registered voters will inadvertently send ballots to persons ineligible to vote or others with fake registrations, invalid registrations, outdated registrations, and to the deceased.
Furthermore, with this type of carpet-bomb approach, it lends to ballot harvesting which if you are unfamiliar is the practice of collecting ballots from large groups of people and submitting them en-masse, often times empowered by political candidates and in doing so alter the legitimacy of those ballots.
There is a reason that no industrialized nation condones universal mail in ballots. This is not just a democratic or republican issue; this is an issue that impacts all of us.
billfriedman9987 t1_iujr14f wrote
I think we all have to admit, the amount of votes tallied after polls closed were more than we've ever seen before, especially in WI, MI, PA, and AZ. We're talking swings of close to a half a million votes in some cases.
justasque t1_iujrb5d wrote
> Just because they count early doesn’t mean they have to release a running total.
Oh they should absolutely NOT release a running total. Under no circumstances. But there will be people who know the total, or who have access to it. And there’s where the issue lies. Those people might illegally use their knowledge to help their party. Or they might be accused of doing so by folks in the opposite party, even if they didn’t. It just creates a whole lot of drama, along with the possibility of an unfair election (or the perception thereof).
We have always had tight elections that take a few days to resolve. It really isnt a problem, if the candidates understand how the voting & counting works and behave like sensible, honest, professional adults. It wasn’t the counting that was the issue in the recent past, it was the adulting, or rather the lack thereof.
BobcatBarry t1_iujrd21 wrote
We would also have to admit that in Pennsylvania that happened because Republicans wrote the legislation forbidding the count of mail-in ballots until after polls close, not because of any chicanery on the part of election administrators.
krabstarr OP t1_iujrlwb wrote
You have no idea what you're talking about.
The "Not Verified" status refers to how the ballot application initially arrived to the county elections office. They can arrive pre-verifed if the application is submitted online with a driver's license which matches with PennDOT records. The online ballot applications which are designated as "Not Verified" are ones where the voter provided only Social Security Number, ones provided a driver's license number which didn't match PennDOT records, ones which provided non-matching PennDOT numbers and a Social Security Number, and ones where the voter didn't provide either. Ones where an SSN is provided are submitted to the HAVA interface to check against Social Security records even before a ballot can be sent to a voter. The majority of the "255k" ballot applications which were designated as "not verified" get verified this way before a ballot can even go out the door to the voter.
The applications remain coded as their original code (Onlinr Mail-In Not Verified, for example) because that's how it originally arrived. It is not an indication of the current verification status of the voter's ballot application nor an indication of the verification status of the ballot application when the ballot was sent.
So no. They DID NOT send 255k ballots to unverified voters.
cpr4life8 t1_iujs062 wrote
I'm not missing any point I'm just not buying your propaganda bullshit.
and_another_username t1_iujs9os wrote
Yea I read it too.
Except that they did get sent out.
The Ballots were sent out. To people who were still yet to be confirmed as verified in the system. You can spin it different ways if ya want. But this is factual.
They even specify if they receive the returned filled out ballot before verified that they won’t count it. And give them up to 6 days after the election
rivershimmer t1_iujsqs5 wrote
> What is not ok is universal mail in ballots, where they are sent to every single voter.
Well, we don't do that in Pennsylvania, so is there any reason you're choosing to complain about it here rather than, say, the Oregon or Utah subreddits?
krabstarr OP t1_iujtu6u wrote
Did you not read a single thing I wrote about how the Social Security numbers are verified BEFORE ballots get sent? THIS is factual. Yes, ballots do get sent out to the minority of voters who didn't provide verifiable driver's license or social security number, but that's not what I'm refuting. I'm refuting the fact that ballots were sent to 255k voters who still did not have verified ID at the time the ballots were sent. It would have been a far lower number due to the fact that the Social Security Numbers are sent for verification prior to ballots being sent, but after the application was received in the "not verified" designation.
Deacon_Blues1 t1_iujxeyn wrote
You are not citing anything. Where are you getting your information?
Boating_with_Ra t1_iujzucc wrote
But this isn’t what happens in Pennsylvania. Mail-in voting in PA is the exact same process as absentee voting. They don’t mail everyone a ballot. They mail everyone a notice that you can vote by mail and give you instructions to do so, and if you want to apply for a mail-in ballot, you follow all those steps you described for absentee ballots.
mccirish t1_iuk34di wrote
They know they're going to lose the governor's race and more than likely the senate seat.
seantimejumpaa t1_iuk8l64 wrote
I voted by mail last year. Elected not to this year. My voting location is in walking distance to my house. I did not get a ballot automatically mailed to me. You have to request it if I’m not mistake.
krabstarr OP t1_iuhog1l wrote
While the earlier submitted article regarding the sending of "unverified" ballots was refuted by a 3rd party, I wanted to submit this article which includes information from Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh M. Chapman's response letter to Representative Ryan and other representatives on Friday.