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YOU CAN DECIDE: Congressional districts like Beaver could be important in deciding which presidential candidate wins Pennsylvania. Now 40 people are sitting and counting the votes by mail from there. Photo: Camilla Svennæs Bergland
BEAVER, PENNSYLVANIA (VG) Right now, 40 people are sitting and counting 29,661 postal votes from Beaver, Pennsylvania. They could determine who will become the next president of the United States.
The Beaver County Courthouse, a 30-minute drive from Pittsburgh, now counts the votes.
Everything takes place in the basement of the room. The 40 people who work there open and sort the postal ballot envelopes before they take them to a small room where there are five or six pieces.
A police officer makes sure everything goes smoothly and, according to a local journalist, the people who work there are approved by a judge.
APPROVED: According to a local journalist, the people who work in the courtroom have been approved by a judge. Votes are counted in the basement of the hall. Photo: Camilla Svennæs Bergland
Beaver is one of seven electoral districts that did not begin counting mail-in votes until today.
– We hope they will be finished during the day, says Election Commissioner Jack Manning to VG.
In 2016, Donald Trump won Pennsylvania with just 44,000 votes in a state of 13 million people. Therefore, constituencies like Beaver could be important in deciding who wins Pennsylvania.
POST VOTE COUNT BEGINNING TODAY: – We expect them to be finished during the day, Election Commissioner Jack Manning tells VG. Photo: Camilla Svennæs Bergland
Beaver waited until the day after the polls closed to count the mail-in votes, while the vast majority of electoral districts in Pennsylvania started when the polls opened.
More Democrats than Republicans are expected to have voted early and by mail.
Beaver County voted for Trump in 2016. So did the other constituencies that have been waiting to count the votes until today.
Controversy over postal votes
Recently, there has been an intense dispute over votes by mail in the state of Pennsylvania.
On Thursday last week, the Supreme Court decided not to override the state’s rule that mail-in votes will be counted up to three days after Election Day, as long as they are postmarked on Election Day.
This has caused the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to rage. He does not like days to pass before a result is ready in the state, and he has already threatened the lawyers.
– They have facilitated a dangerous situation. And then I mean physically dangerous, Trump said during his election rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Monday night.
Earlier in the evening, he wrote on Twitter that the decision could lead to electoral fraud and “violence in the streets.” Twitter has attached a warning to the president’s message, because they believe it contains misleading information.
However, the three conservative Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito and Neil M. Gorsuch, have stated that they do not rule out looking at this again with postal ballots after the election.
Therefore, mail-in ballots received after Election Day at 8 pm local time are separated from mail-in votes received before Election Day.
Will ensure justice
The controversy over mail-in ballots and the fact that Trump has said Pennsylvania has already won has prompted people to stand in front of the courthouse in Beaver County on Wednesday night.
One of those who came forward is David Ninehouser. He wears a mask with the Biden logo and tells VG that he is not surprised by Trump’s views on mail-in ballots.
“Democracy in the United States has been under pressure since Trump came to power,” he told VG.
Now he’s concerned that the citizens of Beaver will have to come together and make sure all votes are counted.
– We want to guarantee justice. We live in a democracy and then all votes will count.
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MEETING OUTSIDE OF COURT: On Wednesday night, several people gathered outside the courthouse in Beaver. They say they want to make sure every vote is counted in Pennsylvania. Photo: Camilla Svennæs Bergland
It may take time to get the result.
Pennsylvania has up to 20 voters / women, and it is right now the state that it is the most backward in the vote count. The result can arrive until Friday.
Trump is around 320,000 votes ahead of Biden, an advantage that has been sharply reduced in recent hours. A large proportion of about 1.4 million mail-in votes is expected to go to Democrats.
The New York Times writes that if the voting patterns we’ve seen so far also apply when the rest of the votes are counted, Biden will win Pennsylvania by 1.8 percent.
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have spent a lot of time in seesaw status recently, which is perhaps not so strange when the president only won the state with 44,000 votes in 2016.
