Review of primary(PA) prompts elections agency to seek changes

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Pennsylvania’s state elections agency is asking lawmakers to require counties to distribute mail-in ballots earlier for the 2020 General Election and beyond, based on its review of how the greatly expanded mail-in system performed during the June 2 primary.

Current law mandates that mail-in ballots be sent out at least two weeks ahead of Election Day, although some counties provide them to voters weeks earlier.

The Department of State’s review of the primary also argues the Legislature should permit ballots to be counted as long as they arrive in county election offices by the Friday after the election, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day. The current deadline for counties to receive them is 8 p.m. on Election Day.

The 43-page report, ordered by the Legislature shortly after the primary, says counties should be allowed to begin handling ballots three weeks ahead of Election Day in the “pre-canvass” process. A Department of State spokeswoman said Monday the goal is to permit counties to prepare ballots for scanning, including opening envelopes and verifying eligibility, to have them ready to be scanned the day of the election.

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Need the USPS to do their job now.

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1. Good for Pennsylvania's state elections agency!

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2. It's not the USPS that needs to do their job...

it's the newly acquired Post Master General who needs to stop doing his job of dismantling the USPS. How long has he been there...2-3 weeks?

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3. My mother RAVED about PA's primary process...

may have been the first time she ever voted absentee. She received email confirmations all along the way and felt confident about the entire process.

And it's not the USPS that needs to do its job -- it's Trump's fucking appointee that needs to stop sabotaging the organization.