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yaesu

(8,020 posts)
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:28 AM Aug 2020

Pennsylvania Wants Votes Postmarked On Election Day To Count After USPS Warns Of Delays

Source: Forbes

Pennsylvania asked the state’s Supreme Court in a court filing Thursday to extend the state deadline for mail-in ballots amid controversial changes at the U.S. Postal Service under new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, and after the USPS warned Pennsylvania and other states that ballots sent in too close to the deadline might not be delivered in time—and not get counted.

“The recent letter by the Postal Service’s General Counsel makes the threat to Pennsylvanians’ right to vote unmistakably clear and concrete,” the Pennsylvania filing notes..”



Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/08/14/pennsylvania-wants-mail-in-votes-postmarked-on-election-day-to-count-after-usps-postal-service-warns-of-delays/#29dd666c7396



This goes along with the news posted with Michigan getting the same warning from USPS. As I understand it this warning has gone to other states also. They are weaponizing the USPS.
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Pennsylvania Wants Votes Postmarked On Election Day To Count After USPS Warns Of Delays (Original Post) yaesu Aug 2020 OP
If in PA , be prepared to fill out a ballot at your local Bd of Elec. apcalc Aug 2020 #1
I am not finding validation of this method anywhere, do you have a link? bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #3
No, no link. I called the Bd of Elections for my county. apcalc Aug 2020 #4
Because all ballots must be received by Nov 3. Why would they accept in person until Nov 24?? bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #5
Edited, 3weeks before apcalc Aug 2020 #6
Thank you , will edit to emphasize within 3 weeks BEFORE 11/3. apcalc Aug 2020 #7
PA State Supreme Court might well extend the deadline. bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #2
Wolf had extended it for 6 counties during the Primaries (including here in Philly) BumRushDaShow Aug 2020 #8
Precedent!! bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #9
Yup BumRushDaShow Aug 2020 #10
Devious Trump may be playing another angle: Scaring voters into voting on election day bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #11
And sadly, it is working BumRushDaShow Aug 2020 #12

apcalc

(4,461 posts)
1. If in PA , be prepared to fill out a ballot at your local Bd of Elec.
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:30 AM
Aug 2020

You may do this IN PERSON within 3weeks before election day.

bucolic_frolic

(42,681 posts)
3. I am not finding validation of this method anywhere, do you have a link?
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:39 AM
Aug 2020

In person at the Board of Elections. Up to 3 weeks before and after Nov 3?

apcalc

(4,461 posts)
4. No, no link. I called the Bd of Elections for my county.
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:41 AM
Aug 2020

My sister called the Bd of Elec for her county, they said the same.

My advice, call your local county Bd of Elec.

bucolic_frolic

(42,681 posts)
5. Because all ballots must be received by Nov 3. Why would they accept in person until Nov 24??
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:45 AM
Aug 2020

It makes no sense. You might be able to fill out a ballot in person up to 3 weeks before, though I'm not seeing that posted in the two counties I checked, but certainly not after Nov 3, up to Nov 24. They have misstated the rule for simplicity I think.

bucolic_frolic

(42,681 posts)
2. PA State Supreme Court might well extend the deadline.
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:32 AM
Aug 2020

Other states, with GOP State Court majorities, not very likely in my view.

BumRushDaShow

(127,331 posts)
10. Yup
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 01:17 PM
Aug 2020

That's why I think they are preemptively asking the Court to decide on it now since there were multiple lawsuits flying right after that happened - both from Drumpf and his campaign, with counter-suits against the GOP by the Democrats here.

bucolic_frolic

(42,681 posts)
11. Devious Trump may be playing another angle: Scaring voters into voting on election day
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 01:37 PM
Aug 2020

where he can go to court to close the polls, no extensions, muck up the machinery, ICE raid polling places, create flash "Protestor" riots, reduce the # of polling places, and litigating the results. He's playing both sides in other words, and we may be taking the bait if that's what it is.

BumRushDaShow

(127,331 posts)
12. And sadly, it is working
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 01:52 PM
Aug 2020

at least for some of my buddies/former co-workers here. They are so afraid that their mail-in votes won't make it in time to count and are insisting on going to vote in-person, despite the fact that I expect to see the number of polling places consolidated quite a bit again - although hopefully not to the degree that they were during the primaries.

I.e., during the primaries, they had to reduce the number of polling locations for the 1,692 precincts, down to 190, from the previously-used 831 locations during the November 2019 general election.

For me, I don't trust the damn (new) ES&S machines they started using last November here in Philly.

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