Suspended states waiting to be decisive: Who chooses Pennsylvania?

Results were delayed in the transitional state of Pennsylvania, which is crucial to tipping one candidate over another, as Republican lawmakers in the state refuse to allow mail-in ballots to be processed early. And one of the scenarios of the US presidential election appears to be fulfilled, as Pennsylvania is preparing to play a pivotal role in determining the outcome of the race between President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.

The race is still pending in some swing states, as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania continue to count millions of mail-in or other absentee ballots. In most of these states, including Pennsylvania, the remaining votes (and from Thursday night through Friday, 329,000 votes) are tilted toward the Democratic Party, whose candidate, Biden, needs about 200,000 votes to resolve the outcome and obtain the 20 votes of the electoral college to be crowned president. Especially since the total number of votes he received as of yesterday reached 253 (11 Arizona votes were decided, pending the completion of the vote count). If the votes from this state are added, Biden’s total becomes 264 votes, which means that Nevada (6 votes) or Georgia (16 votes) can also take the result.
The state of Pennsylvania has not finished counting the ballots (most are from areas of democratic tendency like Philadelphia and Allegheny County), but last night Biden managed to reduce the difference to about 78,000 votes, after counting 89% of the ballots, and is now in a position to be allowed. Overtaking Trump. But why the delay in counting these cards? State election officials were not allowed to process the ballots, let alone count them, until Election Day. Pennsylvania Democrats, including Gov. Tom Wolfe, tried to pass legislation that would allow counties to begin processing ballots for validation before Election Day, but the Republican-led Legislative Council blocked the legislation. . In contrast, the Pennsylvania Republican Party blamed Democrats for the delay. State Attorney Kerry Benninghoff said the delay was a “failure” for the Wolf administration and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, since his party controls the legislature. The Republican strategy has been based on delays and chaos for months.

Pennsylvania election officials were not allowed to process ballots until Election Day.

“Democrats have worked in vain to get approval for the shortlist that would have allowed for faster scheduling,” said Philadelphia District Representative Malcolm Kenyatta. David Baker, CEO and founder of the Nonpartisan Center for Innovation and Electoral Research, also noted that “the delay was the result of Republican inaction.” “Republican legislatures have largely set the rules in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania … and those legislatures refused to allow election officials to process many of these ballots in advance, which would have allowed them to report them more quickly,” he said Baker. Since the Pennsylvania Republican Party did not agree to ballot processing before Election Day, the preliminary vote count in the state consists primarily of Election Day votes, which came to Trump.
The deadline for the state of Pennsylvania to receive military and foreign ballots is next Tuesday. These cards can play a crucial role. In the 2016 presidential election, this state received 22,327 military and civilian votes, according to a report from the United States Election Assistance Committee. This number is expected to be higher this year.

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