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Freedomofspeech

(4,224 posts)
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:14 AM Oct 2020

We are still waiting to get our ballots in Westmoreland Co, PA...

We were told they were mailed last Saturday. However...there is an article in the Greensburg Tribune Review this morning that the county (which is run by republicans) , sent the list of voters electronically to a company in Cleveland. They would have 2 days to stuff the ballots in envelopes, drive from Cleveland to a post office in Pittsburgh to mail them to Westmoreland County voters.
So they lied to us that they were mailed last Saturday. We checked our status yesterday and it said our ballots are in the mail but obviously they are somewhere in limbo. This is horrifying because this area of SW, PA is full of trumphumpers and now they are messing with our ballots.

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We are still waiting to get our ballots in Westmoreland Co, PA... (Original Post) Freedomofspeech Oct 2020 OP
Have you signed up for USPS informed delivery? Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #1
Yes, we are signed up for that and they fired our deputy director of elections last week! Freedomofspeech Oct 2020 #4
It is still just October 9th Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #6
This needs to be reported, if you haven't done this already. secondwind Oct 2020 #2
We haven't gotten ours either in central Pennsylvania TEB Oct 2020 #3
Oh, no. Freedomofspeech Oct 2020 #5
I just called election office after I posted TEB Oct 2020 #15
Montgomery County hasn't sent out theirs yet either PRETZEL Oct 2020 #7
We were told by the county that ours were mailed last Saturday... Freedomofspeech Oct 2020 #8
Berks County (Repub) modrepub Oct 2020 #9
We will take our ballots to the Court House. Freedomofspeech Oct 2020 #11
I have friends in Bucks Co., PA waiting too. Zoonart Oct 2020 #10
This state is a mess with our Republican General Assembly. Freedomofspeech Oct 2020 #12
I lived in Doylestown for 24 years before moving to NYS. Zoonart Oct 2020 #14
Oh...it is an entirely different state than when you left... Freedomofspeech Oct 2020 #17
I'm in Bucks cyclonefence Oct 2020 #16
I'm in Washington county spinbaby Oct 2020 #13
My ballot was mailed in Wake County, NC last Friday--one week ago-- mnhtnbb Oct 2020 #18
This is insane.. Freedomofspeech Oct 2020 #19
It is insane. My county is Democratic and home to the State Capital. mnhtnbb Oct 2020 #20

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. Have you signed up for USPS informed delivery?
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:16 AM
Oct 2020

That would be the first suggestion and contact your local board of elections to update the status of the ballots. Failing that your Secretary of States office may be of assistance.

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
2. This needs to be reported, if you haven't done this already.
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:16 AM
Oct 2020

Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to the GOP!

PRETZEL

(3,245 posts)
7. Montgomery County hasn't sent out theirs yet either
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:21 AM
Oct 2020

although I did read that they are being mailed early next week.

Freedomofspeech

(4,224 posts)
8. We were told by the county that ours were mailed last Saturday...
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:23 AM
Oct 2020

Now the paper said they are supposed to be mailed today?

modrepub

(3,495 posts)
9. Berks County (Repub)
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:24 AM
Oct 2020

Our email notification went out earlier this week (Monday) that they were mailed. Nothing yet. Will probably run the family's ballots in to the drop box. It sure seems like they are being slow walked.

Freedomofspeech

(4,224 posts)
11. We will take our ballots to the Court House.
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:26 AM
Oct 2020

In the spring we had no issues with our ballots...this is insane.

Zoonart

(11,866 posts)
14. I lived in Doylestown for 24 years before moving to NYS.
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:34 AM
Oct 2020

I will be moving back soon for family business. I am not looking forward to the politics of PA.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
16. I'm in Bucks
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:51 AM
Oct 2020

with four mail-in voters in the household. Two of them have received cards (twice) saying their ballots were on the way. Still no ballots.

We will drive our ballots to Doylestown, the county seat, and deliver them to the office of elections in person.

spinbaby

(15,090 posts)
13. I'm in Washington county
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:30 AM
Oct 2020

My ballot is in the mail according to an email I got earlier in the week. I’m not worried about it because, if it doesn’t turn up, I will go down to the elections office where they will get me a new one.

mnhtnbb

(31,388 posts)
18. My ballot was mailed in Wake County, NC last Friday--one week ago--
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 08:55 AM
Oct 2020

and still has not arrived. Ballot tracking says to expect 7-10 days.

My apartment is 5 miles from the County Board of Elections office.

If it doesn't arrive by next Thursday, which is the first day of early voting in person here in NC, I will just mask up and go vote in person.

Freedomofspeech

(4,224 posts)
19. This is insane..
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 09:12 AM
Oct 2020

We will also mask up and go to the polls but we are expecting armed people to be there.

mnhtnbb

(31,388 posts)
20. It is insane. My county is Democratic and home to the State Capital.
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 09:39 AM
Oct 2020

There are 20 early voting locations in the county, but the one where I have voted since moving here 2 1/2 years ago is NOT on the list. It was in a downtown county office building 4 blocks from my apartment. Now I have to drive. Closest location has very little parking. I would be surprised, though, if there would be armed people there.

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