[ April 19, 2024 ]
Pennsylvania rejects 372,000 mail-in ballots, leaving many voters confused: report
One voter was alleged to have submitted 11 duplicates
By: The Blaze, October 17, 2020:
In the immensely critical battleground state of Pennsylvania, approximately 372,000 mail-in ballots were rejected. The situation perplexed many voters, but officials say there is an explanation for the confusion.
Story continues below advertisementProPublica and the Philadelphia Inquirer co-published a report on Friday discovering that 372,000 mail-in ballots were rejected. Overall, one out of every five requests for mail-in ballots were rejected, according to the report.
However, 90% of those mail-in ballots, about 336,000, were denied as duplicates.
The reason for the confusion is because people may have previously and unknowingly already requested a mail-in ballot for the November election.
Many Pennsylvanians who voted during the June primaries may have checked a box to request a mail-in ballot for the November election. Many may have requested a second ballot unwittingly.
The attempt to promote mail-in voting in June amidst the coronavirus pandemic has caused administrative headaches for election officials preparing for the general election.
“We basically have to treat them all the same,” Bill Turner, acting elections director for Chester County, said. “We’re taking a tremendous amount of staff time and effort only to find out it’s a duplicate.”
“The volume of calls we have been getting has been overwhelming,” Marybeth Kuznik, elections director in Armstrong County, northeast of Pittsburgh, said. “It has been almost like a denial of service attack at times because it seemed that sometimes all I could get done was answer the phone!”
Making matters even worse, nongovernmental election groups have deluged Pennsylvania voters with mail-in ballot applications, urging voters to request mail-in ballots. Some voters assume these applications are from the state. They may think that their request for a mail-in ballot was not received by the government, so they request another mail-in ballot.
A spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of State said these nongovernmental election groups have caused “confusion for voters and the likelihood that voters will not realize their application has been processed and they don’t need to submit another one.”
“Voters have also been baffled by unclear or inaccurate information on the state’s ballot-tracking website, and by a wave of mail ballot applications from political parties and get-out-the-vote groups,” the report stated. “County offices across the state have been forced to hire temporary staff and work seven days a week to cope with the confusion.”
The report found that there were hundreds of voters who submitted three or more duplicate applications. One voter was alleged to have submitted 11 duplicates.
There are concerns that the confusion over the mail-in ballots could lead to voter disenfranchisement.
Over 2.7 million Pennsylvanians have requested mail-in ballots for this election.
Also this week, nearly 30,000 mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania were sent to the wrong residences. “About 28,879 voters in Allegheny County, home to Pittsburgh, were impacted due to an error made by Midwest Direct, the company tasked with printing, collating and mailing the ballots,” as reported by Fox News.
The inaccurate mailed ballots were a result of a mapping error. Correct ballots began mailing out on Thursday.
Earlier this week, over 100 mail-in ballots were found in a Kentucky dumpster. An investigation was opened by the U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General, which led to a U.S. Postal Service employee being terminated.
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24 Comments
3 years ago
They will do anything to win!
All this is being done on purpose.
3 years ago
The more chaos and confusion there is, the better for Biden!
Pennsylvania is a needed state.
We can’t let them cheat win.
Biden and Harris are worse then Obama and Hillary combined!
Kamala Harris Is Getting Advice From Hamas-Linked CAIR
OCT 17, 2020 6:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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The Harris/CAIR association goes back years before that as well: “As California’s top cop, Harris partnered with local CAIR officials and relied on them to advise her about community matters. In 2015, for instance, Harris hosted CAIR for an interfaith community event following a deadly terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In 2016, as Harris ran for the Senate, CAIR’s political action committee donated $1,750 to boost her campaign.”
CAIR’s careful cultivation of Harris has been part of a long-term strategy that also involves electing Muslims to offices at all levels, federal, state, and local. Another Islamic advocacy group in the U.S., the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), called upon Muslims to “invest in building power for Muslims in politics” in a May 23, 2020, tweet that featured a photo of a smiling Salam al-Marayati, MPAC’s President and co-founder, with the notorious Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Impeachment). “We ensure that Muslim voices are heard by decision-makers in Washington, DC,” the tweet also says, “and we work diligently with policymakers like Rep. Adam Schiff to advocate for legislation that protects our communities.”
There is much more. Read the rest here.https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2020/10/14/kamala-harris-is-getting-advice-from-hamas-linked-cair-n1051127
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/kamala-harris-is-getting-advice-from-hamas-linked-cair
Joe Biden vows that Muslims will serve ‘at every level’ in his administration
OCT 17, 2020 8:00 AM
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/joe-biden-vows-muslims-would-serve-at-every-level-in-his-administration
3 years ago
#MailFraud2020
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
IF the woman in the photo has all those stickers on at the Board of Elections, SHE IS IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW. No State employee, working for the BOE can tell/SHOW ANYONE their political affiliation because it attempts to persuade the voter when you walk into their building or the Polling place. You cannot, as a citizen, walk into a Polling Precinct either, with ANY TYPE OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR A POLITICAL CANDIDATE, such as a Trump hat, signs, stickers, etc, AT LEAST NOT IN OHIO and you cannot advertise your Candidate on State property. I have a “PRECINCT ELECTION OFFICIAL MANUAL” (Page 4 and other pages) that state this.
THE STATE EMPLOYEE IS IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL AND STATE LAW IF THEY ADVERTISE THIS WAY AT A POLLING PLACE OR AT THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
3 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
Those are the “I Voted” stickers that they hand out at the polls.
The humor behind this is that she was charged for allowing multiple fraudulent votes.
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
IF the woman in the photo has all those stickers on at the Board of Elections, SHE IS IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW. No State employee, working for the BOE can tell/SHOW ANYONE their political affiliation because it attempts to persuade the voter when you walk into their building or the Polling place. You cannot, as a citizen, walk into a Polling Precinct either, with ANY TYPE OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR A POLITICAL CANDIDATE, such as a Trump hat, signs, stickers, etc, AT LEAST NOT IN OHIO and you cannot advertise your Candidate on State property. I have a “PRECINCT ELECTION OFFICIAL MANUAL” (Page 4 and other pages) that state this.
THE STATE EMPLOYEE IS IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL AND STATE LAW IF THEY ADVERTISE THIS WAY AT A POLLING PLACE OR AT THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
3 years ago
A vote for BIDEN/HARRIS is a vote AGAINST AMERICA, OUR CONSTITUTION, AND OUR WAY OF LIFE.
3 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
I wish more people understood this, Tom Sr. They pretend that We the People are boors uneducated and unsophisticated, not understanding the World of today. They cast doubt on the relevance of Our Founding Fathers in today’s World. Yet, they are the ones usurping the G-d given Rights of the People under any pretext, calling out Religious minorities to divide and conquer using them like other for centuries with fear tactics, they want to carve the Constitution to their liking failing to understand the true value of the Electoral College and that it is a check and balance a safeguard for weaker States and populations.
3 years ago
Here in Ohio, there are massively LONG lines at the Board of Elections when voting early. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT MY ALL MY 70+ YEARS. We went there the other day, fairly early and there was NO PLACE TO PARK and the LINE went 3 blocks. We could not vote. Ohio is just waiting for Gov. DeWine to declare a state of emergency and LOCK DOWN OHIO because it has turned predominately RED with Covid-19, which I believe is over-inflated statistics.
We will try again next week, but AMERICAN, IF YOU CAN:
1. VOTE AT YOUR LOCAL BOARD OF ELECTIONS, IN PERSON.
2. VOTE THIS COMING WEEK, IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY.
3. DO NOT VOTE ABSENTEE BALLOT!
3 years ago
“We’re taking a tremendous amount of staff time and effort only to find out it’s a duplicate.”
“The volume of calls we have been getting has been overwhelming,”
“County offices across the state have been forced to hire temporary staff and work seven days a week to cope with the confusion.”
Screw You.
……….It’s probably the first time you actually worked
In Respect for those whose ‘Freedom” was Sabotaged, GET TO WORK
3 years ago
If you want your vote to count..do it in person!!
3 years ago
Total chaos, just what the Democrats want.
3 years ago
Reply to
DVader
Sure the state that lives on fracking is voting for the end fracking leftist party!
3 years ago
Vile democrats cannot win without cheating. I wonder how CA residents feel about losing their rights over the last few decades?
3 years ago
Reply to
Bob
Few of those left in the leftist strongholds have any feelings or integrity!
3 years ago
“Many may have requested a second ballot unwittingly.”….Which begs the question, WHY would the BOE send out ANOTHER ballot to someone who has already requested one? What a mess. The BOE has the responsibility to keep records to check before mailing out duplicate ballot request.
3 years ago
This isn’t “confusion” with voters, it is the plan…to get as many ballots in the hands of registered democrats in the hope they submit 2, 5 or 11 ballots for Beijing biden. We need a huge investigation by outside law enforcement agencies, not the corrupt fbi, obviously.
3 years ago
This is just noise to cover for the real fraud that is ongoing!
