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AverageOldGuy

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7. Also, is there a good explanation why there were so many provisional ballots in Philly and Pittsburgh?
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 08:42 AM
Nov 2024

I don't know, but let me tell you about Virginia.

Three years ago the Virginia General Assembly approved "Same Day Registration" -- register and vote on the same day -- SDR.

The first year SDR was in effect, in a few places across the state, individuals -- armed with ID showing their address in different counties -- went from county to county registering to vote in each county. One of these occurred in my county; when we caught him, he had a long conversation with the State Police resulting in a fine and jail time.

When you complete an SDR, you cast a provisional ballot -- your ballot goes into a sealed envelope and is not tallied until your registration is processed and found to be valid.

While the problem of multiple-jurisdictional registration attempts was small, it was real. So the State Dept of Elections (ELECT) has told all 133 VA localities that we cannot process SDR provisionals until they have had time to process every SDR to determine which ones are valid. Thus, on Wednesday, Nov 13, we will receive from ELECT a list of the SDRs from our county that we can process -- and in my little rural county, we have 32 SDRs -- I can hardly imagine how many Fairfax County has.

Maybe that's what's going on in PA?

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