Pennsylvania counties certify election results
There are a several counties that will be late...not unusual but certification continues. And the hard deadline is November 30th because half the Senate and all of the legislature would be our of office without a certified vote. It really is over!!!!! ByeDon
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-certification-election-results-third-circuit-trump-counties-20201123.html
Monday, November 23, 2020
Pennsylvania counties certify election results despite isolated pushback and baseless fraud claims from Trump allies
by Jeremy Roebuck and Jonathan Lai, Updated: November 23, 2020- 7:01 PM
Pennsylvania counties certify election results despite isolated pushback and baseless fraud claims from Trump allies Pennsylvania counties rushed Monday to certify results from the Nov. 3 election, even as President Donald Trump and his Republican allies continued to press their increasingly long-shot effort in court to stop the state from finalizing the vote tally declaring Joe Biden the victor.
As county boards of elections convened for what is normally little more than sleepy formality, the impact of the president’s push to undermine public trust in the integrity of the vote repeatedly faced.
In at least three of the state’s most populous counties — Montgomery, Allegheny and Luzerne — boards split their votes along party lines. And in several others, speakers at public meetings urged elections administrators to reject the results, echoing baseless conspiracy theories of widespread fraud and malfunctioning voting machines that Trump has propagated in recent weeks...
“....understand that people have strong feelings about this and I understand that people get information from various sources, but I personally have faith in the process,” he said, moments before all three members of his panel voted to approve certification......“Nothing stopped it despite an avalanche of lawsuits and lies,” said City Commissioner Al Schmidt, a Republican, who has received threats for his statements vouching for the integrity of the process in Philadelphia....While there are no hard legal deadlines for when the state as a whole has to certify its results, there are some practical ones.The legislative session ends Nov. 30, meaning all 203 representatives in the state House of Representatives and half of the 50 state senators will officially end their terms next Monday. Lawmakers can’t be seated in districts where the results haven’t been certified, since there’s no official winner yet.
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It's been a helluva day!
unusual will certify tonight...because on the 30th the legislature all are out of office and the half the Senate...no one can be seated until the election is certified...It is done. ByeDon!!! Also you.. were exactly right about Michigan...3-1...saved face and followed the law...I am impressed!
And Fetterman has been trolling them about blanking out the state House and 1/2 the state Senate if they attempt to decertify since the members must be seated by December 1st! 
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John Fetterman
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Nov 22, 2020
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I spent all weekend triple checking that there is *not* a lost, enchanted village in Pennsylvania with 90,000 Trump voters that we forgot to count.
John Fetterman
@JohnFetterman
The GOP lawsuits are so dopey that if PA doesn’t certify the vote, after November 30th, we literally don’t have a PA House + 1/2 of the Senate, both of which are controlled by Republicans.
And they accuse me of smoking too much weed.
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7:23 PM · Nov 22, 2020
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John Fetterman
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Nov 23, 2020
Republicans refusing to certify elections results that show *their candidate won* is literally the purest distillate of their campaign’s efficacy.
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Holly Otterbein
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Luzerne County’s Board of Elections passes the motion 3-2 to certify the vote. Tait, Ouellette and Serniak, all Democrats, voted yes. Gould and Dombroski-Gebhardt, both Republicans, voted no.
John Fetterman
@JohnFetterman
I don’t wanna certify this election.
Your candidate actually won:
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11:11 AM · Nov 23, 2020 from Braddock, PA
^^^I see whose tweet he's quoting too.
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John Fetterman
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Nov 23, 2020
Folks, it’s coming..
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Props to my dude @Commish_Schmidt
Reconvening of the Return Board for the Signing of the Certification
The Philadelphia Board of Elections, sitting as the Return Board for the 2020 General and Special Elections of November 3, 2020 will reconvene for the...
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John Fetterman
@JohnFetterman
It’s almost as if certification is going really smoothly-like the election- and Joe Biden is going to be President.
3:16 PM · Nov 23, 2020 from Munhall, PA
One of my BIL's was born and raised in Dayton and his mother, sister, and brother are still there so have been back and forth to my "other" neighbor state many times!
