Thanks
That article links to this page https://verityvote.us/pennsylvania-voter-deficit/#:~:text=After%20all%20counties%20closed%20the,a%20voter%20deficit%20of%20121%2C240.
which is the actual analysis
Pennsylvania’s official response is here
https://www.vote.pa.gov/About-Elections/Pages/Fact-checking-PA-election-claims.aspx
“The short answer
Official public documents from the Department of State show that 6,945,045 registered voters successfully cast a ballot in PA’s November 2020 election and that a total of 6,915,283 votes were recorded as cast in the presidential election. These two data points clearly show that there were not “more votes than voters” in the 2020 general election.”
Official public documents from the Department of State show that 6,945,045 registered voters successfully cast a ballot in PA’s November 2020 election and that a total of 6,915,283 votes were recorded as cast in the presidential election. These two data points clearly show that there were not “more votes than voters” in the 2020 general election.”
Did you try to debug the official response? I gave it a quick look and I see some problems with their response. I need to look through it again when I have more time later today.
(excerpt)
When PA certified its election (November 24, 2020), Verity Vote could see that there were 202,000 fewer voters than ballots. How? It had the exact number of voters based on its analysis of the SURE weekly updates. V.V. also knew the total number of ballots that were cast, based on the reported votes, adjusted by overvotes, undervotes, and write-in votes. (Take my word for it: that is the correct procedure.)
After being challenged by Republican legislators in late December 2020, the PA Department of State issued a terse communication that acknowledged a discrepancy but dismissed its importance. The Department implied that it was a mere timing matter that would be resolved when all 67 counties finally posted voter information into the SURE system. However, this was not the case.
When the last PA counties finally posted information into the SURE registration system (at the end of January 2021), V.V. determined that there remained a voter deficit of 121,000. Using my audit experience, I extensively tested the V.V. analysis, and I found it to be logical and completely accurate. A voter deficit existed, and the election should not have been certified.
The exact amount is not entirely clear because, magically, 30,000 more voters materialized (without explanation) six months after the election. Yes, the number of voters had grown by the time PA issued its “2020 General Election Report” on May 14, 2021. That is the reason I reported a deficit of just 90,000 in my book, Debunked. Although I suspected that the 30,000 increase in voters was a “plug” entry, I generously assumed that it was some sort of legitimate error correction made by PA. Either way, however, the voter deficit exceeded Biden’s winning margin.
Now let’s examine this problem from a legal vantage point, because it appears that laws were broken in Pennsylvania.
PA Code Section 3154 (b) indicates that a precinct or voting district cannot certify its results unless the relevant county investigates any significant excess of votes over voters. When PA certified its election, however, there was a statewide voter deficit of 202,000. Therefore, there had to be several precincts with voter deficits. That simple mathematical truth tells us that Section 3154 (b) was violated.
It looks like to me JSM_Libery, that the "short answer" is that the so-call "fact check" that you posted references SURE data not from the legally required certification date (Nov. 24th, 2020), but instead it's the data from an PA Election Report citing the SURE database on May (lol) 14, 2021.
It appears to me that the PA official "fact checking" response (and the election results) are bogus and that Verity Vote is correct.
Here is an earlier reference to the apparent discrepancy.
BTW, thanks for the Fact-checking-PA link.