What just happened in Philly?

[Rustynaerduwell]

They stopped counting.

[Hoyt]

1. MSNBC says Democrats have gone to court to stop GOPer observers from going in counting rooms.

At least as I heard it.

[AkFemDem]

4. Are there not official observers from both parties?

Seems this would be a reasonable request, a specific number should be set with rules of behavior in place.

[Hoyt]

6. That's what I thought too, but apparently something else is going on. Maybe GOPers want armed

militia observers. I hope it's not just a lawsuit for the heck of it.

[Hav]

16. I think there is a difference between those who actually handle the ballots

(a representative of each party being present) and an area specified for observers from a distance to watch without getting too close. Rudy Colludy deliberately muddied the waters between those groups yesterday. I suppose members of the latter group entered space they weren't allowed to enter.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. These types of people want inside the counting room.

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[Chakaconcarne]

8. omfg

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. That's an old pic from Ohio over pandemic shut-downs...

... but those types are all over the country and want access to the counting room in Philadelphia now.

[whopis01]

17. Here is an even older one of the exact same thing going on

[Buckeye_Democrat]

19. Yep, the "Brooks rioters" in Florida.

I still can't understand how people were intimidated by those wimps, but they managed to shut down the recounting.

[Mister Ed]

23. It was the noise.

Those inside the room couldn't concentrate, and couldn't converse with each other over the racket created by these Washington GOP staffers shouting and banging on the doors.

[yardwork]

10. MSM media, put this on the even g news. Is this democracy?

[bdamomma]

5. they need to call

out the National guard.

They look like the night of the living dead.

[roamer65]

7. Zombieland.

[bdamomma]

12. ....

Boy this just sick.

It is truly a cult.

[DFW]

27. The Body Snatchers want to peer over the shoulders of election workers?

Don't they have some family members to transform, or something?

[durablend]

11. They're planning on eating all the D ballots

Just look at them!

[bdamomma]

15. Those

people need to be arrested, this is not a dictatorship. And they all do not have masks on either.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. They have 3 shifts going 24/7 and are probably ON BREAK

except for the few hours I have had chance to sleep, I have been streaming them 24/7 and they DO go on breaks, plus lunch and dinner, etc.

That camera is not really pulled back the full way to show the size of the whole gigantic room (Exhibit Hall F at the PA Convention Center).

[PirateRo]

14. CNN states some legal challenge to 29,000 ballots

They will count them tomorrow after 5PM. Not more info.

[rso]

18. Not Philly

This is happening on the Pittsburgh area (Allegheny), not in Philly.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. Oh. I heard Philly on MSNBC.

Then they showed an empty counting room.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. THEY ARE ON BREAK

[Buckeye_Democrat]

22. Oh, okay.

They deserve it!

[BumRushDaShow]

24. There are 3 shifts of workers (I think something like 100 each shift doing various things)

who have been working 24/7 and the stream is running 24/7. As I've watched them the past 2 days, they will do a big batch and then start trickling out on a break and then will continue one portion (removing ballots from envelopes) and then when the batch is big enoug they will start the scanners.

Right now they appear to be moving the "barrier" closer to the canvassing tables.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

25. Thanks for the info!

MSNBC definitely gave me the wrong impression earlier.

Speaking of which, switching to CNN now after seeing Andrea Mitchell on the screen.

[BumRushDaShow]

26. Believe it or not, I have yet to turn the TV on AT ALL for any of this

Because I KNOW they have been reporting bullshit.

[bdamomma]

30. I won't turn the TV

until 8 p.m To much chatter from them.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Heh...

They have to fill those hours. They are too lazy to have someone actually HERE to report and I guess are relying on anecdotes and guessing.

I have been getting news from DU, the city's election site (including their livestream), my local Philly news outlets, and some of the national news outlets' websites.

[bdamomma]

32. You're in

Philly??? you are in belly of the beast??? or should I say the state where it all began??? Philly will come through for Joe.

Don't turn that TV on, bad for your health sometimes.

I'm addicted to DU every time I want to get up to something, I come back to see what's happening!

[BumRushDaShow]

33. Yes I am, born and raised!

We have usually helped to throw the state to blue, along with NE PA, Pittsburgh, and Erie, but in 2016 there were other factors like Erie tipping slightly to red, and NE PA going lighter blue, that threw the whole dynamic off.

Crossing fingers!

[bdamomma]

29. Alan Greenspan's wife

ugh. I turn the channel when I see her too.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

34. Yep, and he was a disciple of Ayn Rand long ago.

Ugh.

That's always my first mental connection for him, not him being a chairman of the Fed Reserve.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. They are adjusting the barrier distance between the media & observers and the canvassers

(this was earlier within the past 30 minutes but they are still adjusting with a tape measure just now)







ETA - they also have periodically had cleaning crews come in and wipe down the tables when they are on breaks. Here is a pic if the latest barrier configuration and one with a woman who has been cleaning the barrier rails -