Maryland Republican93: A 30,000 vote margin heading to a recount? Sure weird things have happened, but realistically this isn’t changing. The Minnesota 2008 Senate race or the Virginia 2013 AG race changed a few vote totals here or there when the margin was under 1,000 votes, Casey isn’t coming back.

Maryland Republican93: A 30,000 vote margin heading to a recount? Sure weird things have happened, but realistically this isn’t changing. The Minnesota 2008 Senate race or the Virginia 2013 AG race changed a few vote totals here or there when the margin was under 1,000 votes, Casey isn’t coming back.

Under Pennsylvania law, voters may cast ballots through the mail. Local election officials are prohibited from opening the envelopes containing mail-in ballots until 7 a.m. on Election Day.

Prior to 2020, the only Pennsylvania voters permitted to vote by mail needed an excuse – for instance, serving overseas in the armed forces. The first time Pennsylvania voters were able to vote by mail without an excuse was in 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a record number of voters nationwide chose to vote by mail when that option was allowed, including in Pennsylvania.

Out of the nearly 7 million total Pennsylvania voters in the 2020 presidential election, roughly 2.6 million voted by mail. Prior to 2020, local election officials never needed to count such a large number of ballots received through the mail, and news organizations could typically announce Pennsylvania’s unofficial winner quickly.

For instance, in 2016, media organizations could project a Trump victory in Pennsylvania at 2:29 a.m. the Wednesday after Election Day. But in 2020, it took four days for enough ballots to be counted for news organizations to project that Joe Biden won Pennsylvania and would be the next president.

As of 10 a.m. on Oct. 28, 2024, about 2.09 million Pennsylvania voters had requested mail-in ballots. That number was likely to increase, as Pennsylvanians could request a mail-in ballot until Oct. 29. County boards of elections must receive mail-in ballots by 8 p.m. on Election Day for those ballots to be counted. Members of the military and overseas absentee ballots have until Nov. 12.

LSjustbloggin: Why do Democrat voters overwhelmingly vote by mail ?.

Hikikomori Blitzkrieg!: So no one here is going to defend (or attempt to explain away) the practice of it taking apparently 2-3 weeks (or more) to count the ballots in Pennsylvania?
Or acknowledge that up until 2016, it wasn't like that. Something changed. Does anyone here, you know, all you people who believe in democracy, and hate fascism, do any of you have any insight into why elections in Pennsylvania after 2016 take weeks to count?
Or are you just all miserable cowards who lack the courage of your stated convictions?

Hikikomori Blitzkrieg!: So no one here is going to defend (or attempt to explain away) the practice of it taking apparently 2-3 weeks (or more) to count the ballots in Pennsylvania?
Or acknowledge that up until 2016, it wasn't like that. Something changed. Does anyone here, you know, all you people who believe in democracy, and hate fascism, do any of you have any insight into why elections in Pennsylvania after 2016 take weeks to count?
Or are you just all miserable cowards who lack the courage of your stated convictions?

Hikikomori Blitzkrieg!: So no one here is going to defend (or attempt to explain away) the practice of it taking apparently 2-3 weeks (or more) to count the ballots in Pennsylvania?

Hikikomori Blitzkrieg!: So no one here is going to defend (or attempt to explain away) the practice of it taking apparently 2-3 weeks (or more) to count the ballots in Pennsylvania?
Or acknowledge that up until 2016, it wasn't like that. Something changed. Does anyone here, you know, all you people who believe in democracy, and hate fascism, do any of you have any insight into why elections in Pennsylvania after 2016 take weeks to count?
Or are you just all miserable cowards who lack the courage of your stated convictions?