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DeminPennswoods

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10. Depends on the state
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 05:51 AM
Sep 2020

In PA, absentee ballots can't be opened and counted until the polls close at 8PM. Gov Wolf is asking our R controlled state legislature to amend our election law to allow the absentee ballots to be "canvassed" before the election, that is the county election officials can verify voters and signatures on the outer envelop and sort the sealed ballot envelopes. He's also asking that ballots post-marked, but not received, by election day be counted. We had a test run in our primary back in June where there were a lot of absentee ballots and it went pretty smoothly. We even had a race where it looked like a win for a Pgh Dem, but after the mailed ballots were counted, a Phila Dem won. But that was only a day later.

O'Donnell. iirc, last night said MA opens and counts ballots as soon as they are received. That's why the Markey and Neal wins were called pretty quickly.

Anyway, how long did we wait in 2000 until FL was ultimately awarded to Bush by the Supreme Court?

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