Many voters in Pennsylvania inform that they still have not received days of voting from the election in 2024. Where they were lost in critical deep poviats-are particularly disturbing.
Adams Country
IN Q and A. session The upcoming election secretary of Pennsylvania Al Schmidt, who supervises the election administration throughout the state, was informed that dozens of voters in Adams submitted an application for post voting, but did not get it.
Adams is consistently a republican unit. In fact, no democratic candidate seeking the presidency won the Adams Ferries from Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. In 2020Donald Trump won 66.13 percent of the votes of the County at 32.13 percent of Joe Biden. In 2016Hillary Clinton had only 29.63 percent of the votes, the lowest the lowest democratic nominated in the county since the unsuccessful Presidential Race of George McGovern 44 years earlier.
Mifflin’s County
Similarly, in Mifflin, reliably republican and pro-trumpe fortress, there is Talking among voters on social forums About the lack of voting cards that have not yet reached their threshold.
In 202016,670 voters of Mifflin (77.37 percent) were chosen by Trump compared to 4603 for Biden (21.36 percent). In 201614 050 (76.53 percent) voted for Trump nad Clinton, who won the miserable 3563 (19.41 percent). The last time the Mifflin’s unit chose a democratic presidential candidate was 1964.
York county
So where did the missing voting cards go?
York, Republican County, apparently At least 421 voting cards were sent for incorrect postal addresses. Electoral hawks suspect, however, that this number is more likely in thousands.
Proponents of voting rights have recently discovered a party for voting cards marked with a “impossible” stored on the spot in the election office of the Fountains. Election officials apparently He replied, saying that they could not control what is happening with voting cards when they are in the hands of the American postal service.
This year, the Republican Republicans of York enthusiastically accepted post voting, it is sufficient that requests to vote by postal counties were divided almost evenly, from only 52 to 48 percent in favor of Democrats, according to Friday, according to Friday Analysis carried out by ABC27 NewsTV station from Harrisburg.
Republican registration in York currently overcomes Democrats by about 71,400 signatures. This lead indicates that Donald Trump will pay Kamala Harris locally, as in 2020, when Trump won the York county better than three to one vote, York Daily Record reports. Over the past 40 years, conservatives of constantly registered programs.
ERIE COUNTRY
This is also the case with Erie, in which hundreds of frustrated voters lined up this week before the Office of the Elaboration of the Ferriers after anxiously was expected to come to the voting card, which never came-to ordering them almost a month ago.
Residents he said Youorerie.com that they stood in a queue for four hours to make sure their voices were counted. Meanwhile, conversations come from voters with a question where their voting cards went, overwhelming the telephone system of the voter registration office, and some calling apparently disconnected.
Electoral officials of the County to talk that about 750 cards for the postcard were lost. Two of them were dropped in an American postal processing facility in Pittsburgh, about a two -hour driving south of Erie, but then they were sent to the wrong mail. These voting cards were then stopped for some time and further delay of delivery.
Karen Chillcott, Erie Clerk Clerk he said The Electoral Council of the County cooperates with the Department of State of Pennsylvania, the Governor’s office Josh Shapiro and USPS, to “reach the heart” and determine their delivery status.
The unit-in-west of Pennsylvania-Rawarte with an external supplier based in Akron in Ohio, to handle the shipments of vast parties. Their postal house, Electioniq, had previously made a separate mailing error just before the error in which the address software worked incorrectly, instead of printing duplicates and entering them into incorrect envelopes. Almost 300 voters said that they were sent to vote and another belonging to someone else.
“There is really nothing to see here”, chairman of Andre Horton, a democrat in the Erie Council, he said misfortunes. “It is important to remember that not every mistake is vile, and at the end of the day we are all people,” said the support of the Democracy Defense project.
As for Pitstop in the Pittsburgh processing tab, this is where the ERIE mail is processed before sending to delivery. So it looks like This The problem arose with USPS.
In Erie, post voting made a difference in the last election.
While other jurisdictions throughout the country predictably bend left or right, the Erie “Bumenger” from Democrat to Republicans and a return between elections in recent cycles. Barack Obama twice supported, and then fell over to Donald Trump in 2016, but Joe Biden barely regained the unit in 2020 (less than 1500 votes or 1.03 percentage points, by NPR), mainly thanks to post voting.
Trump won a personal number with 54 420 votes at 30 646 biden, According to Erie Times-News. However, Biden gained a huge advantage (over three to one) when postal voices were counted in the days after the election; Biden eventually had 32,929 postal votes (over 75 percent) to 9 279 Trump.
Democrats again enjoyed this advantage in mid -2022.
As a counteracting strategies, the management of GOP of the Ferrings sought more Republicans to vote by post, thus increasing the attendance of voters as a whole. Chairman of the Republican Party in Erie, Tom Eddy he said NPR, that he disseminated the Gospel on the day of election, speaking with skeptical conservatives that in order to win, they should also receive post voting.
“I still have people who are adamant against them [mail-in ballots]Eddy said. – They say, “Well, it’s a way to fraud.” And I said, “Yes, it can be.” But we have to play this game. Otherwise we lose. We can’t win elections without them. “
Erie, which demographically reflects the various warehouses of urban countries, suburban and rural swaths, is the Bellwether’s County, known from the election of presidents. As the proverb says, regardless of this, Erie votes in any way, Pennsylvania tends to attitude. This is proven in the last few races.
