Rudy Giuliani made this absolutely absurd, untrue claim about PA mailing out 1.8M ballots but counting 2.5M, and now people really believe it and think there’s obvious fraud being ignored.

Hard to know the right way to fight back against this stuff sometimes. Sigh. Screenshot of email that reads as follows:  “Is one of you
The exact numbers being cited — 1,823,148 mail ballots sent and 1,462,403 returned — are from the PRIMARY election in June.

Specifically, they are from this dataset: data.pa.gov/Government-Eff…

To be really clear about it, since I’ve gotten some questions:

1.8M ballots mailed in the *primary*
1.5M ballots returned in the *primary*

2.5M ballots counted in the *general*

There’s no gap between 1.5M cast and 2.5M counted. Those are from two separate elections.

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28 Nov
The PA Supreme Court dismisses the case brought by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly that sought to overturn last year’s law creating no-excuse mail voting and to throw out those mail ballots cast in this election.

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15 Nov
A few thoughts from watching this clip President Donald Trump RTd of Lewandowski talking about vote-counting in Philly.
“They had an armed guard that stopped us first, they had magnetometers, and they had uniformed police officers who threatened to arrest us if we went in.”

Sounds like a high level of security around the ballot-counting process.
“I presented that order to both the chairman of the board of elections”

The chair, Lisa Deeley, is a woman. Her deputy says Lewandowski “never spoke to Lisa.”
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One think that’s so striking to me about the way this has played out in PA (dayslong count, strong blue shift) is it was so predictable.

I mean, we predicted it. Repeatedly. It shouldn’t catch us off guard.

It’s the direct outcome of the electoral system and clear set of facts.
In January, we warned it could take days to call the election.

Why? It’s the first year all PA voters could vote by mail. That meant there would be a lot of ballots.

At the time, counties couldn’t open ballots before 8 p.m. Election Day.

inquirer.com/politics/elect… Screenshot of the January 1...
The secretary of state disagreed. She said it wouldn’t be a problem bc counties would count mail ballots after polls close and before the first in-person results come in.

This was before the pandemic surged demand for mail ballots. In March, it was changed from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.
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Philly elections officials paused their counting of mail ballots Thursday, according to a source familiar with the situation, as they scrambled to accommodate a state court order to allow representatives from President Donald Trump's campaign to more closely observe the process.
Kevin Feeley, spox for Philly elections officials, just gave super brief statement:

“The count is going forward. There was a brief pause earlier today in light of the ongoing litigation. But it has resumed in accordance with the law.”
Updates on this and everything else will be on our live blog as they come in:

inquirer.com/politics/elect…
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President Donald Trump is tweeting about Pennsylvania and the counting of votes.

If you’re confused, here are some facts, and then some specific responses to his tweets.
Vote totals change as votes are counted.

That’s how it works.

inquirer.com/politics/elect…
There are a lot of mail ballots still to be counted, and they’re coming primarily from Democrats. That’s one of the reasons we expect a sizable “blue shift” in the votes.

inquirer.com/politics/elect…
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Donald Trump is wrong about Pennsylvania.

He’s wrong about the remaining vote totals and whether Biden can win based on those numbers. (He can.)

He’s wrong about the votes coming from areas in his favor. (They’re not.)

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Trump: “We’re up 690,000 votes in Pennsylvania … it’s going to be almost impossible to catch.”

The results of most of PA’s mail ballots aren’t known yet, with at least 1.44 million left to be counted or included in the totals as of 3 a.m., according to PA Dept of State data.
And those votes will almost certainly be heavily for Biden.

First of all, mail ballots in general were used much more by Democrats than Republicans. Even in most counties Trump won in 2016, Democrats outnumbered Republicans when it came to voting by mail.
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