Source: National Today
US Presidential Election Pennsylvania: Both Trump and Harris will need Pennsylvania to get the 270 electoral votes they need to win the 2024 election. However, state election officials have said that the final results may not be released until later. A worried Republican named Al Schmidt, who is the secretary of state for Pennsylvania, said that “bad-faith actors take advantage of that period of uncertainty to undermine the confidence in the outcome.”
In 2020, many states took a long time to release the final vote count, which led to wild claims of voter fraud and a lot of conspiracy theories. This important battleground state was one of them. At the time, Donald Trump was president of the US. He led the campaign to question the winner of that year’s election.
Pennsylvania started early absentee and no-excuse mail voting four years ago. That gave voters in the state more options for casting ballots, but it also meant that election workers had a lot more work to do. This is due to the fact that state law prohibits any processing of those mail-in ballots before Election Day.
Each ballot for mail-in is packaged in two envelopes. To put the ballot through a vote counting machine, it must be taken out of their possession, unfolded, and flattened out to remove any creases. Each ballot takes several minutes to process.
Furthermore, Pennsylvanians who meet the eligibility requirements may cast a “early in-person” ballot this year. Election workers will have more work on their hands as a result of these being handled as absentee ballots.
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The question of why the Keystone State hasn’t taken action to address the problem that became painfully obvious in 2020 was posed to Schmidt on Sunday by CBS’s “60 Minutes.”
“Pennsylvania’s unique in that we have a divided legislature,” he explained. “We have a Democratic House and a Republican Senate. So getting anything done related to election reform has certainly been a challenge.”
“Please be patient,” Schmidt pleaded. “Our counties are working night and day to count their voters’ votes.They’re doing so as quickly as they can, and with integrity.”
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