Thread by @DKaplanReports

I have an incredibly important story tonight at 6. If you’re voting by mail, there’s a chance your vote won’t be counted if you don’t put it inside of the secrecy envelope that’s provided as part of your ballot. wtae.com/article/secrec…

Some back of the envelope math from the primaries suggests that the rejection rate for ballots not inside the secrecy sleeve is about 5%. Right now, 2 million Pennsylvanians and rising have requested mail in ballots. 5% of that is 100,000. Pennsylvania’s margin in 2016: 44,000.

Profiling Washington County tonight. They had 22,000 people vote by mail in the primary. Around 1,000 ballots were ‘naked’. In June primary, counties were allowed to count these ballots after careful review. Last week, state Supreme Court said these ballots must be tossed in Nov.

Your mail-in ballot will have three components.

1.) Ballot
2.) Secrecy Envelope
3.) Declaration/Return envelope

Ballot goes into Secrecy Envelope which goes into Return envelope that you will have to sign and date on the back.

There will be instructions in your ballot.

We laid out all of this in a story last Friday, check it out below.

Tonight at six, we'll talk to an elections administrator and a non-partisan voting rights group.

They're both happy this conversation is being had now before most Pennsylvania voters get their ballots.

Another thing to note: And I've tried to include this in every voting-related story-- As of right now, all in-person precincts are open in Pennsylvania on Election Day.