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.

#WTAE
Just for some perspective.

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.
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Counties unanimously asked for the ability to precanvass.

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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.

#WTAE
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."

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THREAD: Some fresh election reporting tonight surrounding mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.

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Officials recommend putting your email address in application for automated updates on your ballot.

Want the link to do that? We've got it and other relevant links here:

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