Pennsylvania Wants Votes Postmarked On Election Day To Count After USPS Warns Of Delays
Source: Forbes
Pennsylvania asked the states 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 timeand not get counted.
The recent letter by the Postal Services 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.
apcalc
(4,461 posts)You may do this IN PERSON within 3weeks before election day.
bucolic_frolic
(42,681 posts)In person at the Board of Elections. Up to 3 weeks before and after Nov 3?
apcalc
(4,461 posts)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)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.
apcalc
(4,461 posts)apcalc
(4,461 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,681 posts)Other states, with GOP State Court majorities, not very likely in my view.
BumRushDaShow
(127,331 posts)back in June due to the pandemic - https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom/gov-wolf-signs-executive-order-extending-mail-ballot-deadline-in-six-counties-to-june-9/
(ballots still had to be postmarked on election day)
bucolic_frolic
(42,681 posts)Governor's prerogative!
Thanks for the good news! At least here in PA!
BumRushDaShow
(127,331 posts)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)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)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.