Back in the Allegheny County Elections Warehouse. Just got confirmation on something I wanted to share: NONE of the ballots postmarked last Tuesday or earlier that were received by last Friday at 5 p.m. have been added as part of the tally here.
947 ballots still set aside.
Additionally, here's a breakdown of what's to be counted.
Some important numbers: 6,500--500--7,000--17,000.
6,500- Ballots set aside that have some sort of issue.
500- The number of those ballots that are more likely be counted, but more research required before counting
7,000-- Remaining ballots in that group of 29k sent to wrong voters that still need verification. These are mostly folks who sent the incorrect ballot and not the correct one. These need to be double checked against provisionals and surrendered ballots to ensure 1 person 1 vote.
17,000- Provisional ballots to be evaluated. No good estimate of how many will count. All require double-check & verification. Sounds like they won't start going through those until tomorrow.
I'm told all is cordial here amongst all observers and elections officials.
I also checked in with Armstrong County elections.
They received around 40 ballots after election day. Administrator wasn't entirely clear how many were properly postmarked, but, like Allegheny, hasn't counted these ballots either.
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Cumberland County, Pa, where President won by 17.8 points in 2016, decides to start counting mail-in ballots on Nov. 4th, the day after the general election.
No precanvassing means smaller counties need to figure out how to allocate resources, this is how Cumberland is doing so.
Governor Wolf says he offered concessions to legislative Republicans last week in order to try and reach a pre-canvassing deal. Indicated he and legislative Republicans had reached an agreement and then Republicans then took the deal off the table.
Wolf said he offered concessions specifically on reducing the number of days after the election that counties could count ballots post-marked on Nov. 3 from 3 to 2, additional security measures for dropboxes, and allowing poll watchers from outside a given county.
Wolf just said, "It was their deal and they walked away from it."
I reached out to a House GOP Spokesman yesterday, who characterized this differently.
"There was no deal or firm concessions put on the table by the governor," the spokesman said.
Ok. Bear with me here. I spoke with elections officials in two counties today who say they’re getting inundated with calls tied back to Box number 7 on the mail-in ballot application form.
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.
The ballot needs to be "finalized", approved by a court before going to voters. Right now, Pa. Democrats are saying the Green Party didn't do the necessary work to ensure their Presidential and VP candidates should be on the ballot.
No exact word on what's next in the case.
President Donald Trump's 2016 margin in Pennsylvania: 44,292 votes.
Number of votes Green Party candidate Jill Stein got: 49,941
Well, if this range session is any indication, I’m gonna shoot a 135 tomorrow morning. At least the weather is nice. Everyone have a good, safe weekend.
Update: 45 at the turn. All seems normal again. Key tip: don’t practice. Or think.
Another update. My @CallawayGolf driver broke. My 3 wood broke last round. And I’ve broken 4 irons in this set. Not a snap over the knee type of guy, so maybe I’m just crazy strong?