‘Imagine what Donald Trump would say’: Key swing state sweats over vote-counting fiasco (Pennsylvania still counting)

Politico ^ | 6/05/20 | Holly Otterbein

[Libloather]

PHILADELPHIA - Three days have passed since Election Day, and races for auditor general, state senate and state representative are still up in the air in Pennsylvania.

Election officials haven’t finished counting the vote because they are grappling with an influx of more than 1.4 million mail ballots after the state implemented no-excuse absentee voting for the first time ever amid a pandemic, widespread protests and riots. In Philadelphia, the biggest city in the state, only about 14,000 of nearly 160,000 mail and absentee ballots had been tallied as of Friday afternoon.

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The fact that Philadelphia, a Democratic stronghold, is still counting mail ballots is particularly nerve-wracking for Democrats. They fear that President Donald Trump could use delays there in the fall to discredit the results - or declare victory after rural areas where he is strongest have finished tallying mail ballots, but before Philly is done.

“The volume of votes in November will be much higher and Trump will use any opportunity he gets to question and undermine the validity of the election in November,” said Amanda McIllmurray, a Philadelphia-based Democratic strategist, “which will disproportionately and intentionally disenfranchise Black, brown and white working-class voters.”

[Libloather]

Give Iowa a call. They know how to do this.

[Erik Latranyi]

Dry run for voter fraud in November

[Liz]

Heh........you nailed it.

[the_Watchman]

declare victory after rural areas where he is strongest have finished tallying mail ballots, but before Philly is done.

Do they think readers are that stupid?!! Their plan is to have the rural areas done first so they know how many ballots to fabricate. That is one of the major reasons mail votes are preferred by the Dems.

[grey_whiskers]

Call Minnesota about boxes of ballots found in the trunk of a poll worker's car. It's how one of their Dem Senators got elected just in time for 0moebacare.

Along with the literal framing of Ted Stevens in Alaska. Funny how nobody involved in prosecutorial misconduct there ever suffered for it.

[PIF]

They are busy trying to figure out how many Republican votes they can get away with throwing out for whatever reason while creating new ones to cover the Democrat vote shortfall

[Brilliant]

And because it’s such a fiasco he would be right in challenging the results.

[ronnie raygun]

There getting out the kinks for a smooth voter fraud in November

[Truth29]

The obvious solution is to just abolish voting. The Central Party knows what the people want and will just proceed with the next 5 year plan.

[newfreep]

The DNC/CPUSA Voter Fraud is Trump’s (and America’s) ONLY opponent in 2020 election.

[Sacajaweau]

Creative voting....aka....fraud

[Singermom]

Any precinct theat has OVER 100 % voters voting should be disqualified.

[pangaea6]

Did Iowa ever get it right or the way they wanted it to be?

[kiryandil]

“The volume of votes in November will be much higher and Trump will use any opportunity he gets to question and undermine the validity of the election in November,” said Amanda McIllmurray, a Philadelphia-based Democratic strategist

Trump has already won the November vote, Amanda.

We'll enforce that victory at gunpoint, darlin'.

[joe fonebone]

What a bunch of $hit.... an incompetent monkey can process 20 ballots per hour, from opening envelope to feeding into machine...

Of course, this does not include examining said ballot for the “Proper” vote, if you know what I mean...