OK - Sorry to ask (again) when the question has been asked a zillion times

[My Pet Orangutan]

Why the fuck is the PA count STILL taking so long? Yes I get that they could not even begin to process the mail-in until 8pm Tues, AND ballots have to be moved around the state, but JHC, this is crazy!

[catbyte]

1. Because there are about 100K provisional ballots and, even though they're almost always

heavily skewed towards Democratic voters, they think that somehow they are massively pro-trump. Although to make up the deficit, they will have to be around 70% trump which is pretty impossible.

[My Pet Orangutan]

2. I'm asking why the Count is so slow.

That's all.

[marybourg]

6. Massive amounts of mail-in ballots which

each take much longer to prepare, examine and tally than machine counted in-person ballots as they had in previous years.

[catbyte]

7. Provisionals have to be hand-checked. They can't just be opened & run through the machine.

It takes a lot longer because there was a reason they were provisional and they have to make sure the voter was qualified to vote.

[PatSeg]

8. I understand the frustration

but then I see the boxes and boxes of ballots that they have to be counted and am amazed that it can even be done in a reasonable period of time. It truly is a daunting task.

[beachbumbob]

3. Takes time, so chill out

[My Pet Orangutan]

4. It is a reasonable question.

How many sis did they count yesterday?

[Demsrule86]

12. PA should have been called. In fact, Trump will lose all remaining states.

[beachbumbob]

16. Networks call it when the metrics are met, so chill and this will not

end any of trumps antics any way

[marybourg]

9. No extra money in the coffers this year to hire

and TRAIN large numbers of new election workers, in a year when experienced workers dropped out and had to be replaced.

[marybourg]

14. You want the boogaloo boies in there?

Screening, training and supervision is required. This is work that requires more than basic skillls.

[marybourg]

19. You too!

[LisaL]

10. Provisional ballots are usually time consuming to count.

They have to verify that the person is a registered voter in the precinct, that the person hasn't voted already, that signature matches and so on.
PA also had an unusually high number of provisional ballots this election because they changed their method of voting and allowed vote by mail. Yet apparently many people either didn't receive their ballot or changed their mind, resulting in a large number of provisional ballots.

[My Pet Orangutan]

13. ty

OK

[Silent3]

15. I don't care how long PA officially takes, the media has more than enough data...

...with what PA has already provided to see that the writing is on the wall. They can come up with a million reasons that a call can't be 100% certain yet, but they've totally run out of reasons a call isn't 99.99% certain.

If it were any other current President than Trump, they'd have called PA a day or two ago.

[grantcart]

20. Yep

[judeling]

17. They have to count the absentees before the provisionals

And with the court case sequestering the postmarked but late arriving ballots that slowed it down.

What they are doing is checking for double votes.

This process in one way or another is still going on in many states right now.