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AmericaPhiladelphia stopped counting mailed votes on the night of Nov. 3, a move that could skew preliminary results on the battlefield state of Pennsylvania.
Only 76,000 of the 350,000 mailed ballots from Philadelphia were counted, according to Holly Otterbein, who covered the presidential race in Pennsylvania.
“Remember, there were a lot of Biden supporters who voted by mail,” Otterbein said.
Election staff at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on November 3. Image: New York Times
Max Marin, a Philadelphia-based freelance reporter, said in a post at 9:30 pm that “there will be no more count results in the mail tonight” and that the count will resume at 9 o’clock on November 4.
Voting officials said it may not be until Nov. 6 that the results of the vote count will be known.
“If there is still a large backlog of uncounted votes on Election Day night, then the total number of votes announced could be in favor of the Republican Party,” said New York Times correspondent Patrick LaForge. write on Twitter.
The problem in Pennsylvania is concerning because it is a battlefield state with 20 electoral votes, which has a huge impact on the race for the White House. Nate Silver, the founder of the FiveThirtyEight website, which specializes in analytics and polls, once thought that Pennsylvania would decide Trump-Biden’s success or failure. Ballots by mail in Pennsylvania can have problems with litigation due to state “cap ballots” regulations. An “empty ballot” is a valid mail-in ballot, which is placed directly in a large envelope sent to the voter, without being placed in a smaller white security envelope that reads “Main ballot. Awake.”
Earlier, the Pennsylvania governor warned that it could take several days for the state to count votes.
In 2016, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania by a difference of about 44,000 out of 6 million votes, or less than 1%.
Hong Hanh (According to the New York Post)
