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I'm not concern about PA polling, Joe is doing fine there.
However, I am concern about the mail in ballot returns.
According to https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/PA.html
Democrats requested 1,825,586 ballot and so far return 847,350, so a 46%
My main concern is most of the ballots unaccounted for are in the Philly suburb area.
As of 10/21,
Bucks county return just 7.3% ballots.
Delaware county return just 14% ballots.
Montgomery county return just 29.9% ballots.
These are some of the lowest throughout the state and are democratic counties that Biden needs to win.
Are these returns just slow to tabulate or are voters not receiving and/or returning their ballots?
If you request an absentee or mail-in ballot, that request will be reflected in the records of your local polling location. If you change your mind or misplace the ballot and decide to vote in person, you will be required to vote with a provisional ballot. Within 7 days after the election, the County Election Office will decide whether you were eligible to vote at the election district where you voted the provisional ballot. If you were eligible, they will count your provisional ballot.... and if the voting differential is close enough to matter.
In short, if you don't return your mail in ballot, your vote may not count!
In Addition, history has slow, voting via provisional ballot slows poll workers time and possibly increase voters wait times at those locations on election day. There could be a limit on provisional ballots too.
Please relieve me from my concern.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)clutterbox1830
(395 posts)I phone bank in Pittsburgh and voters do not seem aware of it.
In PA, if voters you don't return your mail-in ballot, your vote might not count on election day.
PRETZEL
(3,245 posts)I live in Montgomery County. Our ballots didn't arrive until Tuesday. Fortunately, the county has several drop off locations throughout the county. We were able to drop off ours yesterday with no problems.
marmar
(77,090 posts)RobinA
(9,894 posts)It is a concern. I requested a mail-in for the general when I requested one for the primary. I got it this past weekend at a PO Box I keep that is not the address on my voter registration and which I have tried to get rid from their records twice to no avail. So I think time is a little short to mail it, based on what I've (rightly or wrongly) been hearing. So, OK, let's take it to a ballot box place. Where are they and when can you take it? I look it up and see that all the times to turn it in are during business hours. Hello? People work. So I look again a couple days later and there is another, different listing of places and times (the original list is still up) This includes most but not all of the places previously listed, as well as some after work times that are kind of random. The closest place to me is not listed on this new listing. The next closest place is open a couple evenings, other places all have different evenings. So I go to my next closest place with evening hours and oops, that place isn't open that night. So supposedly it is open tonight, I will try again. I don't know what happened to the place that is actually convenient.
If I didn't hate this man so completely I would have given up by now. I may end up taking it down to the main voter services office and affixing it to the door with a large knife, like in those Middle Ages movies.
PRETZEL
(3,245 posts)the county's website I believe has the correct hours.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)The SoS website was not breaking down the numbers accurately by county but now are. If you look, those counties mentioned have seen a significant increase over the last hour.
Thekaspervote
(32,790 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,790 posts)My uneducated guess, they are slow to be tabulated. Why would PA be so much different than their neighboring rust belt states?
meow2u3
(24,771 posts)I'm phone banking in PA-CD7 (Susan Wild for Congress) and this is the info I'm receiving; voters not having received their ballots.