PA Gov. Tom Wolf on PA GOP lawmakers planning to object:
“They claim to believe that Pennsylvania’s election was compromised and that our electoral votes are suspect. This, of course, is a shameful lie. The very democracy these lawmakers swore an oath to uphold is at risk here.”
PA Gov. Tom Wolf:
“The problem is these folks are not telling the truth. Because it’s a fact Pennsylvania had a fair and free election; it’s a fact that there was no fraud or illegal activity in Pennsylvania; it’s a fact that Joe Biden won the presidency.”
PA Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar:
“With everything our country and commonwealth has faced this year, we’re reminded more than ever why we must fight any effort to undermine our great democracy.”
“All Pennsylvanians should have confidence in the election results in Philadelphia,” @Commish_Schmidt says. “We had the most transparent and secure election in the history of our city.”
PA Gov. Tom Wolf on PA’s House GOP members who say they’ll object to state’s results today:
“It’s inconsistent at best. I mean, each of them was elected according to the rules they’re apparently saying they don’t agree with. … I don’t understand how you can do that.”
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Yes, counties that have been dealing with a flood of mail ballots, and running the election with humans, are still finalizing their updates to vote histories in SURE.
MY OWN vote history was only updated last week (12/28) by Philly elections officials.
Basically, in claiming there were 205K more votes than voters in Pennsylvania, you’re taking an incomplete dataset and being shocked that it is not complete.
When I asked Cliff Levine, Democratic lawyer representing state Sen. Jim Brewster — who wasn’t sworn in today — about next steps, he declined to discuss specifics but said they have to learn more about what the Senate’s going to do next with the election contest petition.
That contest petition, which Republican challenger Nicole Ziccarelli filed last week, asked the Senate to throw out the certified results as illegal, declare Ziccarelli the winner, and seat her:
Brewster’s response to the contest petition, meanwhile, asks the Senate to dismiss the petition.
As PA state senators are sworn in tomorrow, what will happen in the 45th Senatorial District, where this fight is ongoing over who won the election and counties’ different policies for counting undated mail ballots?
There were 10,097 ballots received during the grace period: 9,428 postmarked by 11/3 and 669 with missing/illegible postmarks.
Those 10K ballots aren’t currently included in the certified totals for the presidential and congressional races, (though they are for the state ones.)
Why isn’t PA Dept of State including them? Spokesperson:
“SCOTUS ordered counties to strictly segregate these ballots, and it was determined that they would be most clearly segregated by not adding them to the totals until further action by the court.”
Confused? I was. Talked to a few experts, and here’s my basic takeaway:
This might change some of the road to get there, but the result is basically unchanged: Congress will meet Jan. 6, receive the Electoral College votes, and Joe Biden will be inaugurated as president Jan. 20.