[ April 23, 2024 ]
The Democrats have utterly destroyed our election system. Corrupt Pennsylvania must be disqualified.
Amid claims of unexplained ballots, Pennsylvania officials unsure how many voted in 2020
Several counties have not uploaded full “voter histories,” said a spokesperson.
By Daniel Payne, Just the News, December 31, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementThe state of Pennsylvania is still uncertain just how many residents voted in the 2020 election, a state official revealed this week, amid allegations of discrepancies between ballots and voter rolls in the battleground state.
Pennsylvania was thrown back into the limelight this week when a group of Republican state representatives claimed to have found “troubling discrepancies between the numbers of total votes counted and total number of voters who voted” in the state last month.
“A comparison of official county election results to the total number of voters who voted on November 3, 2020 as recorded by the Department of State shows that 6,962,607 total ballots were reported as being cast,” a press release announcing the findings said, “while DoS/SURE system records indicate that only 6,760,230 total voters actually voted.”
SURE is Pennsylvania’s Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors, the state’s voter registration database. That databank is run by the state’s Bureau of Election Security and Technology, itself administered by the Department of State.
The Pennsylvania State Department strongly disputed the representatives’ allegations of mismatched vote totals, with spokeswoman Wanda Murren calling it “uninformed, lay analysis combined with a basic lack of election administration knowledge.”
“This obvious misinformation put forth by [the representatives] is the hallmark of so many of the claims made about this year’s presidential election,” Murren continued, calling the allegations “wholly without basis.”
Voter histories still incomplete for 2020
Multiple representatives who signed onto the analysis would not comment on its conclusions, pointing Just the News toward Rep. Frank Ryan, who appeared to have spearheaded the initiative. Ryan did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
But Murren in her statement and in interviews with Just the News revealed that, even as the year comes to a close nearly two months after the election itself, the state is still ultimately not in possession of the exact number of voters who cast a ballot in Pennsylvania this year.
In her statement disputing the findings of Ryan and the other representatives, Murren said: “We are unclear as to what data the legislators used for this most recent ‘analysis’. But the only way to determine the number of voters who voted in November from the SURE system is through the vote histories.”
“At this time,” she continued, “there are still a few counties that have not completed uploading their vote histories to the SURE system. These counties, which include Philadelphia, Allegheny, Butler and Cambria, would account for a significant number of voters.”
In email and phone interviews with Just the News, Murren confirmed that voting histories “are each tied to an individual voter” and that those histories are “the only way to determine exactly how many voters voted in the election.”
Asked to clarify how the Department of State certified the election without apparently knowing how many voters ultimately voted in the election, Murren replied: “Each county certifies the vote totals for each individual candidate. The secretary’s certification is based on the certifications from each county. In Pennsylvania, it is the counties that are authorized to administer all aspects of elections — from voter registration to canvassing the ballots.”
Murren pointed to the Department of State’s website, which lists just under seven million ballots cast in the election this year.
That figure is reflective of “the number of votes cast for each candidate,” she said. “Those numbers come from the scanners. And those scanners are totally anonymous. It’s just the votes cast for individual candidates.”
“What the counties are doing now,” she continued, “is strictly administrative. They are now going back and telling our database which voters voted.”
“We don’t know which candidates they voted for,” she added of the administrative lists, as “those counts are already established” in the scanner tallies.
The number of ballots cast is not necessarily going to match up exactly with the number of all the voters who voted, Murren said. Still, the number of ballots on the state’s website should be considered a rough estimate of the number of people who voted, she said.
“We have to keep in mind those people whose ballots were cast and not counted,” she added. “That’s going to be one of the differences. And there are people who cast a ballot and don’t vote—not a lot, but it happens.”
“This is not uncommon,” she said of the delay, “and especially with the volume of ballots we had this year.”
Pennsylvania has been at the center of much of the controversy since last month’s election. The state was named, along with three others, in a major litigation effort by Texas and 18 other states earlier this month to delay the certification of the 2020 election results pending investigations into alleged voting irregularities there.
The state was also the site for what the Trump campaign legal team argued was a two-tiered voting system leading up to the election, with multiple counties adopting last-minute rule changes to ballot curing procedures and numerous other counties declining to change those rules prior to Nov. 3.
The state also weathered multiple accusations that election watchers and poll workers were stymied from properly surveying ballot-counting procedures and other election work.
Two of the localities Murren said have not yet submitted their voter histories — Philadelphia and Allegheny — are reliable Democratic strongholds. Philadelphia has reliably voted Democratic in presidential elections for decades, with the city itself voting 81% in favor of Joe Biden this year.
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21 Comments
3 years ago
soreass knows, he wrote the check
3 years ago
Wanda Murren calling it “uninformed, lay analysis combined with a basic lack of election administration knowledge.”
Counting?
3 years ago
Reply to
WadeBaker
Making it up as they go along – these are the very same people in her administration Pa state employees – if such were the case that she claims why are they still working for the state if they’re that ‘ supposedly ‘ incompetent
3 years ago
The Sgt. Schultz defense!
3 years ago
The ballots that weren’t counted won’t come into play because they already have several hundred thousand more counted ballots than registered voters.
3 years ago
What a load of double speak. 🙁
3 years ago
This has been going on for decades. It MUST STOP!!
3 years ago
Another reason the election must be turned in favor of the President.
3 years ago
For months this year ALL we heard was how safe and sure mail in balloting would be. What BS.
3 years ago
There is no legal & peaceful solution to fix the corruption.
The corruption runs too deep to be fixed in a nice manner.
3 years ago
And now the general public understands the phrase “close enough for government work”.
3 years ago
Phone/fax/email/any means of contact to your government officials Demand a secure accurate REVOTE ASAP!
3 years ago
Fraud is fraud. There has been enough people coming forward to state that they witnessed fraud.
Shouldn’t the driver’s testimony of what is now a vanished truck full of ballots coming from NYC reason enough to do a forensic review of all ballots?
3 years ago
Were dems “Having all states update & exchange voter registration lists” “to reduce fraud”?
Or
so they could synchronize smartmatic algorithms & reproduce ballots in key areas for unlikely voters & allocate them Nov 3 & wee hours of November 4th?
3 years ago
During the Obama administration that came up with the brainy idea in 2012 for every state to share with every other state their registered voter rolls to reduce fraud. The only thing is it seems like it creates an opportunity to develop lists of people who never vote, or seldom vote? Especially, in a year where you mass mail ballots and you’re going to win by hook or crook. Evidently the temptation was to great, margins to far and they got carried away.
3 years ago
SHE IS using the MO of the DemoKKKrats. EXCUSE after EXCUSE after EXCUSE!!! STOP the excuses — PUT ALL of the FACTS upon the table to be investigated by ANY American Citizen!!!!!
3 years ago
At least for the seven key States, prior to providing Electors on January 6th, each State MUST be required to resolve the major questions that could have an outcome on the election. If they cannot or do not adequately resolve these issues then their State is not counted. We The People demand a fair Election System and the irregularities and last minute changes by Governors and Secretaries of State that violate the Constitution must be addressed or the State is not counted. This concept that a State can do what it damn well pleases, even to the benefit of a Candidate, cannot be tolerated any longer or over half of We The People will not accept the results now or ever again. Adequately explain and prove validity or take your Electors and go home.
3 years ago
There is one “elephant in the room” that I have not heard addressed. When a Governor and Secretary of State rig their election, they are saying, “We don’t care what our constituents want. We will decide and tell them who and what they get.” That is totalitarianism at its best and not only should those constituents demand better – they should also clean house thoroughly – unless you want to continue to be subservient to their whims.
3 years ago
Without an honest election system we become another Venezuela, China , Russia etc. Just an oligarchy/ dictatorship.
3 years ago
Biden won? OMG! I guess I can walk to the moon!
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Hey, 200,000 votes won’t make a difference according to the powers that be in Pennsylvania. No fraud. No illegal voting. Just 200,000 more votes than voters. What could possibly be wrong?
3 years ago
Democrats cheated fair and square.
