Hey folks, I’m here at the Allegheny County Elections Warehouse tonight. Will keep you all updatedpic.twitter.com/KoIjNMSLz1
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County spokesperson Amie Downs just provided an update: 3,000 ballots were damaged and had to be redone. At 5:30 pm, poll workers will resume to finish the processing the last hour of overseas/military ballots (3873 ballots).
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Around 6:30 (or after poll workers are done with overseas ballots) they will start the processing the 29,000 ballots. When asked if the 29,000 ballots will take a few days, Amie Downs said “probably”
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Another update: Today's totals for ballots received by today with postmarks on or before election day: 113 received today, 64 of those can be counted. Out of all three days: 1,045 has been received, 947 can be counted
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Also linking this thread to folks who need more background on the ~29,000 ballots that need to be reviewed tonighthttps://twitter.com/lauren_llee/status/1324849685937442816?s=20 …
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Allegheny Co. Election Divisions Manager David Voye provides an update:pic.twitter.com/yzYhWBw2tu
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Election Divisions Mgr: Poll workers have completed the damaged ballots and are approximately 2/3 of the way done with the military/overseas ballots. They are now transitioning into counting the 29,000 ballots
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The first section of that will be the people that return both the incorrect ballot & correct ballot – they’ve already 'married' the two together and we’re going to set aside the original ballot and count the orange one.
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Next, they will start counting ballots from people that only sent back the second corrected ballot
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Allegheny Cty Elections Divisions Mgr David Voye explaining how they know if someone voted in person and got sent one of the incorrect Ballots:pic.twitter.com/hLOo9UdCmP
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When asked how long this process might take, Mr. Voye could not provide an exact estimate. “It’s a time consuming process, I apologize. We are working as hard as we can." He said there's a sense poll workers will have to work after 9 p.m. tonight
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Results from damaged and military ballots per County Exec Rich Fitzgerald: 4134 for Biden 1076 for Trump
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5,345 ballots total (numbers won’t add up perfectly because some voted independent) Fitzgerald said another 1,500 or so more military ballots left to go
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Lots of chatter and some movement in the back as poll workers continue onpic.twitter.com/I29RlcyFq7
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UPDATE, from Allegheny Co. Exec Rich Fitzgerald: 9,288 more votes counted. These include the rest of the military ballots & part of the 29,000 ballots being processed Biden =7300 Trump = 1,875 He did not have an answer to how much of the 29,000 were included in this update
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Poll workers have left their seats, but haven’t received confirmation yet if operations have officially ended for today.pic.twitter.com/QRU4x9qY8n
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Update: An additional 3,212 ballots have been processed from the last update Biden 2,436 Trump 733
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