Posted on 11/08/2022 7:35:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Within hours of polls opening in Pennsylvania Tuesday morning, a "last minute change" is already causing vote count delays in notoriously corrupt Philadelphia. Before the change this morning, votes in the city were expected to be fully counted by Wednesday morning.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
City officials voted Tuesday morning — as polling places opened and the vote count began for the midterm elections — to reinstate a time consuming and labor-intensive process for catching double votes that will slow how quickly they can report results.
If Pennsylvania’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race is as close as expected, a wait for results out of the state’s largest city is sure to shine a national spotlight on Philadelphia, similar to after the 2020 presidential election.
The city commissioners, the three-member elections board, voted 2-1 to reinstate what is known as poll book reconciliation — a means of flagging mail ballots submitted by voters who also voted in person — during an emergency 7 a.m. meeting.
It was a sudden reversal of a decision they made less than a week ago and came a day after a city judge, responding to a Republican lawsuit, said they could move forward without the process.
Last week Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman warned votes would not be fully counted on Election Day.
"We will not have official returns on Election Night," Chapman said in an interview with NBC News. "My goal as Acting Secretary of State is to make sure we are educating voters, the public and the media just about how the voting process works in Pennsylvania, how vote counting takes time and because of the restrictions we have with our state law, we will not have official returns on Election Night...election workers in our 67 counties can only start opening ballots at 7 am on Election Day...starting at 8 p.m. when the polls close, that's when the counties can release the results. So it takes time. We are not like other states that have weeks to pre-canvas."
During Monday's briefing at the White House, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre echoed Chapman's sentiments.
KJP: "We may not know all the winners of elections for a few days. It takes time to count all legitimate ballots in a legal and orderly manner. That's how this is supposed to work, and it's important for us to all be patient..." pic.twitter.com/7u4YeaT4yO— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 7, 2022
Late Monday night, the Fetterman campaign issued a lawsuit in an attempt to have undated mail-in ballots counted, despite the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ruling they cannot be counted.
...Elias has been accused by reporters of allegedly denying the funding of Steele Dossier by the Clinton campaign. He has also been sanctioned by the courts and the Clinton campaign was recently sanctioned over its hiding of the funding of the dossier through his prior firm...— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 8, 2022
...Fetterman is asking the federal court to negate the state provision as an "unnecessary impediment [under] the Civil Rights Act and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution."— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 8, 2022
The Dems are “in your face” about their cheating. We are a banana republic when it comes to the franchise.
When Fetterman remarked that the vote count would be delayed, that meant he won his election.
We already can figure out that this whole election will be a farce. Last time I vote because this is no longer America. No point in thinking we can save this country.
Of course they should be doing this. Why the objection?
The problem is they can't do it efficiently.
https://www.revolver.news/2022/11/2022-midterm-election-expect-the-steal/
This change helps us.
RE: This change helps us.
In what way?
So we accept the steak and get on with our lives? Do you believe that’s even possible? It’s sad to say but if elections no longer matter then we have drastic decisions to make.
The election officials have to go through ballots by hand to make sure nobody who voted by mail also shows up to vote on Election Day.
Take a scrub brush to filthapelphia.
They are gonna get away with this BS again, aren’t they!?!
They are gonna get away with this BS again, aren’t they!?!
That seems to violate this SCOTUS ruling -
scotus-9-0-decision-federal-elections-undecided-by-midnight-are-void
The counts MUST be delayed! By last second judge ruling, broken machines, or machines reading incorrectly. Whatever it takes to ensure that the counting goes on through the night, so that the dems can do their infamous early morning vote dumps.
Well yes we do. How many more stolen elections will it take to see that voting is no longer an option? These people will steal seats that they need to keep themselves in power all the time now.
Yet we keep blaming ourselves and infighting while they laugh at us because they know we can’t beat their cheat.
Maybe we can win someday Pa if we quit doing things wrong. That is us. We have become stupid victims who won’t fight back. It is sickening.
Fetterman mail in ballots ==896,000 +++
OZ == 222,000 +
Hassan got 1100 votes in a town of 700 total population.
57% extra........
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