Thread by @Elaijuh, Whoa.In an email, Pennsylvania House GOP says negotiations over allowing counties to [...]

Jonathan Lai 🙊 賴柏羽

Elaijuh

Whoa.

In an email, Pennsylvania House GOP says negotiations over allowing counties to start processing and counting ballots before Election Day are essentially dead.

That keeps current law: Counties can’t open ballots until 7 a.m. Election Day.

“Given that the Governor has not put anything on the table that can get through our caucus and has once again removed himself from the process of discussing the issue, we have no plans at this time to consider changes to the Election Code that will affect the upcoming election.”

County elections offices are facing a flood of mail ballots, with the PA Department of State estimating three million votes — or more! — will be cast by mail.

It takes time to count those votes. Days.

Current law means that long process can’t start until 7 a.m. Election Day.

Stay tuned for more shortly from @CynthFernandez, who told us in this story last month that “the chances of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and GOP leadership reaching an agreement seem less likely than ever.” https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/spl/pa-election-november-mail-ballots-supreme-court-tom-wolf-20200918.html

Voting victories for Democrats in Pa. might have closed the door on more election reform

Election boards want to start processing mail-in ballots before Election Day, but such a move would require cooperation between the Democratic governor and Republican leaders.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/spl/pa-election-november-mail-ballots-supreme-court-tom-wolf-20200918.html

Just getting caught up to the issue of counting mail ballots?

Start here: https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/coronavirus-pa-mail-ballots-2020-election-results-20200522.html

Want to know who won the presidential race on election night? Get ready to wait.

A new election law and coronavirus fears have set up a 2020 election in which everyone could be left waiting for days before results are known.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/coronavirus-pa-mail-ballots-2020-election-results-20200522.html

What’s the real impact of a long count not starting until Election Day?

The results will (almost certainly) skew Republican at first, until mail ballots are counted. Meet the “blue shift”:
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-2020-election-blue-shift-20200127.html

The danger? False claims of victory. http://inquirer.com/politics/election/2020-presidential-election-pa-voting-problems-20200628.html

Pennsylvania is running out of time to prevent a nightmare 2020 election scenario

The experience of this month’s Pennsylvania primary election, coupled with Trump’s increasingly frequent false claims about mail voting, point to a troubling possibility in November.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-2020-election-blue-shift-20200127.html

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