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clutterbox1830

(395 posts)
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 10:55 AM Oct 2020

Concern about PA

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.

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Concern about PA (Original Post) clutterbox1830 Oct 2020 OP
It's a concern Loki Liesmith Oct 2020 #1
*sigh* That is a bit disheartening :( clutterbox1830 Oct 2020 #2
I'm less concerned at this point. PRETZEL Oct 2020 #3
..... marmar Oct 2020 #4
Montgomery County, Here RobinA Oct 2020 #5
Dropped off mine in Royersford PRETZEL Oct 2020 #10
Hi. I believe this is a reporting issue. Drunken Irishman Oct 2020 #6
Thx for posting..that is reassuring Thekaspervote Oct 2020 #8
Historically, winning PA is in our favor. PA has only voted once for a gop pres in the last 24 yrs Thekaspervote Oct 2020 #7
Many of my contacts have yet to receive their ballots meow2u3 Oct 2020 #9
It is criminal that people haven't receive their ballots yet. clutterbox1830 Oct 2020 #11

clutterbox1830

(395 posts)
2. *sigh* That is a bit disheartening :(
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 11:24 AM
Oct 2020

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)
3. I'm less concerned at this point.
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 11:27 AM
Oct 2020

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.

RobinA

(9,894 posts)
5. Montgomery County, Here
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 11:39 AM
Oct 2020

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.

 

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
6. Hi. I believe this is a reporting issue.
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 11:47 AM
Oct 2020

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)
7. Historically, winning PA is in our favor. PA has only voted once for a gop pres in the last 24 yrs
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 11:52 AM
Oct 2020

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)
9. Many of my contacts have yet to receive their ballots
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 11:54 AM
Oct 2020

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.

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