Best day for Dems in a while. 74.15% of ballots have been received. Allegheny hit 75% returned. No counties are at 90% but Forest is at 89%. Luzerne is the last county to hit 50%. We all know about the lawsuit in Erie (16,350 ballots outstanding/missing, D+2,724).
Could you say more about Erie County? Is this cock-up or sabotage? What remedy is being implemented or considered? Or is it just a shoulder-shrug and "Well, without a mail ballot, I guess y’all will just have to vote on Election Day."
This was an issue I had wondered about three weeks ago. According to the figures out of Erie, 16,350 ballots are still outstanding, about 39% of all requests & are closer to an equal distribution among the parties but half are still for Dems. The problem is that this system wasn't meant to handle 162k mail ballots let alone 1.625 million ballots. The GOP doesn't want to fix it. This lawsuit should have been filed last week.
Part of the Democratic groundgame, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, is focused on helping voters "cure" their faulty ballots. For instance this rather-impressive rate of curing in Allegheny:
"Allegheny County ballot curing: County officials told us today they've sent 1,190 ballots back to voters for defects, and 738 (62%) have been fixed and returned so far."
Yeah If I can encourage one thing people can do from any non swing state is a phonebanking shift on curing ballots, it's calls to solid Harris voters and makes a huge difference.
Actually in all 7 Battleground states(our GOTV in Florida,not a battleground, without national campaign money is actually not bad for a state that is trending in the opposite direction)we have a badass ground game
I am still being cautious about FL knowing what happened in the 2022 midterms as far as Democratic Party turnout. However, I have faith the GOTV game will increase the margins for Harris in the state even if she loses.
Thursday's PA Mail-In Ballot Update is in.
5,991 new requests, D+329. Final request advantage now down to D+486,239
75,578 ballot returns, D+7,767. Overall ballot advantage now D+387,810. 2.2k short of the (once) popular firewall, 62.2k below my firewall
Total Requests (FINAL?):
D - 1,198,727 (54.68%)
R - 712,488 (32.50%)
O - 281,226 (12.81%)
Total - 2,192,441
Total Returns:
D - 917,896 (76.57% return rate)
R - 530,086 (74.40%)
O - 177,724 (63.20%)
Total - 1,625,706
Best day for Dems in a while. 74.15% of ballots have been received. Allegheny hit 75% returned. No counties are at 90% but Forest is at 89%. Luzerne is the last county to hit 50%. We all know about the lawsuit in Erie (16,350 ballots outstanding/missing, D+2,724).
LOB:
D - 176,956 (63.01%)
R - 50,493 (27.68%)
O - 57,581 (55.63%)
Could you say more about Erie County? Is this cock-up or sabotage? What remedy is being implemented or considered? Or is it just a shoulder-shrug and "Well, without a mail ballot, I guess y’all will just have to vote on Election Day."
This was an issue I had wondered about three weeks ago. According to the figures out of Erie, 16,350 ballots are still outstanding, about 39% of all requests & are closer to an equal distribution among the parties but half are still for Dems. The problem is that this system wasn't meant to handle 162k mail ballots let alone 1.625 million ballots. The GOP doesn't want to fix it. This lawsuit should have been filed last week.
both parties have filed suits, and apparently the issues is with a vendor working for hte USPS, from what I've read
Part of the Democratic groundgame, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, is focused on helping voters "cure" their faulty ballots. For instance this rather-impressive rate of curing in Allegheny:
"Allegheny County ballot curing: County officials told us today they've sent 1,190 ballots back to voters for defects, and 738 (62%) have been fixed and returned so far."
– Charlie Wolfson
Yeah If I can encourage one thing people can do from any non swing state is a phonebanking shift on curing ballots, it's calls to solid Harris voters and makes a huge difference.
God damn! The Harris Camp is certainly got a badass ground game in PA.
Actually in all 7 Battleground states(our GOTV in Florida,not a battleground, without national campaign money is actually not bad for a state that is trending in the opposite direction)we have a badass ground game
I am still being cautious about FL knowing what happened in the 2022 midterms as far as Democratic Party turnout. However, I have faith the GOTV game will increase the margins for Harris in the state even if she loses.
Though technically, if she loses, we hope she decreases the margins. :-)