Summary
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party has sued Erie County’s board of elections over mail ballot issues affecting between 10,000 and 20,000 voters. Some voters received extra ballots, while others never received theirs, potentially impacting their ability to vote in Tuesday’s election.
Only 52% of requested ballots had been returned in Erie, significantly trailing the state’s 67% return rate. The lawsuit demands extended election office hours, a process to track extra ballots, and disclosure of affected voters’ names.
Erie County’s political influence is due to its bellwether status in Pennsylvania, often mirroring state outcomes in tight races. It has swung between major parties, flipping from Obama to Trump in 2016 and back to Biden in 2020 by a narrow 1,400-vote margin.
Yeah mine never showed up, had to go stand in the courthouse for an hour and a half. When we showed up and were told it was a 2 hour wait, and that “we’ve been getting a lot of people who didn’t get their ballot” I knew something was fucked with.
But I got my vote in.
Pat on the back for you and your partner!
So this county only 50% got them, and statewide it’s only 2/3s?
No, that’s return rate. So we know at least 52% in the county got theirs, because they returned it and it was received. And statewide we know at least 67% got theirs, because they returned it and it was received.
Some (hopefully small) number of voters might have gotten their ballot but then ignored it or threw it away - or mistakenly spoiled it somehow (mistook it for a napkin at dinner time).
Others might have returned their ballots and then they got lost in the mail on the way back.
So the return rate isn’t completely indicative of how many failed to get sent out.
We don’t know for sure how many failed to be sent out, but it’s reasonable to assume the number is high, due to the large disparity between the statewide return rate and the county return rate.
No, we don’t know how many were not delivered. What we do know is the county is making simple mistakes that’s resulted in a 15 point drop in returns.
Across the state 2/3 of people who’ve requested a mail ballot have recieved and returned them. In this county on 52% have, with known mailing errors.
DeJoy fuckin’ around with ballot deliveries once again - it’s just more targeted on swing states this time around
The mailing errors are not with the post office, they’re with the county board of elections.
But also, Fuck DeJoy
I am 100% certain that DeJoy is subtly making matters worse with regard to ballot deliveries wherever he can, and particularly in swing states.
The county announced earlier this month that about 300 voters received ballots intended for others in addition to their own because of an error by its Ohio-based vendor, ElectionIQ.
more like intentional rigging by the elites that fund both parties and who actually decides who ‘wins’
My man, if a shadowy cabal of elites were dictating who won and lost the upcoming election, they sure as fuck wouldn’t be manipulating results in such a base-level way. They’d just have the numbers fudged at the end, rather than take risks with tracked objects going missing.
God, I can’t wait for the election cycle to end so the majority of the trolls, nutters and Russian astroturfers can finally crawl back into their respective holes for another 3.5 years.
Even that’s too much work. They’ll just get the Supreme Court to change the result. All for the price of a few motor coaches.
Unless you have actual evidence of election interference, don’t try spreading conspiracy theories.
Especially not with a fucking adjective-noun username.
Is… is this irony? 🦋
Indeed it is. :) At least I don’t have a space in my name. That’s how you know who the real bots are.
The Elites? The Covenant has gone too far this time. Somone page the Artbiter
Have you considered replacing them with Brutes?
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