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Some counties will miss Pennsylvania's election results certification deadline
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Source: WITF News
At least four counties home to about 800,000 voters will not have election results certified when they’re due Monday to the Pennsylvania Department of State, though three of them expect to wrap up within the next couple days.
Ultimately, minor delays in a handful of counties fully certifying their results shouldn’t affect the overall certification process statewide — in part because Pa.’s election code doesn’t set a hard deadline for statewide certification by the Secretary of State, which is normally a formality, voting law experts say.
Of 42 counties to respond to WITF’s inquiry, at least ten with a combined 546,000 voters had already fully certified their results and sent them to the Pa. Department of State by Friday.
Another 28 counties with nearly 6.9 million of the state’s 9 million registered voters confirmed they will hit Monday’s deadline.
Ultimately, minor delays in a handful of counties fully certifying their results shouldn’t affect the overall certification process statewide — in part because Pa.’s election code doesn’t set a hard deadline for statewide certification by the Secretary of State, which is normally a formality, voting law experts say.
Of 42 counties to respond to WITF’s inquiry, at least ten with a combined 546,000 voters had already fully certified their results and sent them to the Pa. Department of State by Friday.
Another 28 counties with nearly 6.9 million of the state’s 9 million registered voters confirmed they will hit Monday’s deadline.
Read more: https://www.witf.org/2020/11/23/some-counties-will-miss-pennsylvanias-election-results-certification-deadline/
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The sad part is that we have a hyper-partisan bunch of loons who have decided to put a magnifying glass on what are "routine" state processes and then claim it is "fraud". 
From the OP article there was this -
Schuylkill County officials say they will wrap up Tuesday, while Westmoreland County doesn’t expect to finish until next week due to pandemic-driven staffing shortages and a tight state Senate race. Berks, Carbon and Luzerne election boards are scheduled to certify Wednesday.
“Sometimes counties lag behind – that’s not unusual,” said ACLU of Pa. elections and voting rights consultant Marian Schneider, formerly deputy secretary for elections and administration at DoS.
Schneider said that’s especially true when counties are dealing with recounts, close races and/or litigation over election board decisions such as the cases out of Philadelphia and Allegheny and Bucks counties.
https://www.witf.org/2020/11/23/some-counties-will-miss-pennsylvanias-election-results-certification-deadline/
“Sometimes counties lag behind – that’s not unusual,” said ACLU of Pa. elections and voting rights consultant Marian Schneider, formerly deputy secretary for elections and administration at DoS.
Schneider said that’s especially true when counties are dealing with recounts, close races and/or litigation over election board decisions such as the cases out of Philadelphia and Allegheny and Bucks counties.
https://www.witf.org/2020/11/23/some-counties-will-miss-pennsylvanias-election-results-certification-deadline/
PA, like other states, is in the throes of a major COVID-19 spike, and there are counties, particularly the smaller ones here, that are being decimated, so trying to finish this up with the type of major operation that places like here in Philly had put in place (thanks to a $10,000,000 grant) is a true burden for many of them.
No other county had a canvassing operation the size of here in Philly because we do have almost 1.6 million people -
Here in Philly, the head of our Board of Commissioners tweeted this -
Link to tweet
TEXT
Philadelphia City Commissioners
@PhillyVotes
The Return Board will meet either 11/23 or 11/24 @ 7pm to sign the certification. Which day is subject to the timing of the PA Supreme Court's ruling on In Re: Canvass of Absentee and Mail-In Ballots of November 3, 2020 General Election. Check http://PhiladelphiaVotes.com for updates.
1:52 PM · Nov 22, 2020
@PhillyVotes
The Return Board will meet either 11/23 or 11/24 @ 7pm to sign the certification. Which day is subject to the timing of the PA Supreme Court's ruling on In Re: Canvass of Absentee and Mail-In Ballots of November 3, 2020 General Election. Check http://PhiladelphiaVotes.com for updates.
1:52 PM · Nov 22, 2020
I believe she is referencing the votes that were segregated, but counted, and whether those can remain in the count or be tossed and it's up to the PA State Supreme Court's decision. The number of ballots at issue will make no real difference in the final count because Biden is up by some 81,000 votes and would easily be the winner, regardless.
