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DeminPennswoods

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26. Exactly

Reply to StarfishSaver (Reply #19)

Fri Nov 20, 2020, 05:38 AM

Nov 2020

Don't know how it is in other states, but the small print on the ballot in PA states that you are voting for the electors of the candidate you choose, not the specific candidate.

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