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November 7, 2020
You ROCK! Thank you my friends!
Thank you DU friends for getting me through this 4-year nightmare
You ROCK! Thank you my friends!
November 3, 2020
Joe signs the inside wall "From this house to the White House with the grace of God. Joe Biden 11/3/2020"
Joe Biden visits his old family home in Scranton with his granddaughters
https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1323645089059667974Joe signs the inside wall "From this house to the White House with the grace of God. Joe Biden 11/3/2020"
October 29, 2020
Link: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2020/10/29/thousands-requested-mail-ballots-lost-butler-county-pennsylvania-election-2020/stories/202010290124
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I live in the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, which is adjacent to Butler County. I experienced NO DELAY in receiving or sending my ballot. In both directions my ballot was received the next day after sending via U.S. Mail.
Potentially thousands of requested mail ballots lost in Butler County, official says
Link: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2020/10/29/thousands-requested-mail-ballots-lost-butler-county-pennsylvania-election-2020/stories/202010290124
HARRISBURG — Potentially thousands of mail ballots requested by Butler County voters appear to be lost, a county official said Wednesday, and the U.S. Postal Service has been asked to immediately investigate what happened to them.
A USPS spokesperson, meanwhile, said the agency is “unaware of any significant delays or issues and is in regular contact with the Board of Election as we work to locate and deliver ballots as they are presented to us.”
As of Tuesday, Pennsylvania voters are no longer able to apply for an absentee or mail-in ballot.
Nearly 40,000 registered voters in the county requested mail ballots. So far, only 24% of them have been returned to the county, by far the lowest rate among the state’s 67 counties. The county with the next-lowest return rate, Fayette, has received 50% of requested ballots.
A USPS spokesperson, meanwhile, said the agency is “unaware of any significant delays or issues and is in regular contact with the Board of Election as we work to locate and deliver ballots as they are presented to us.”
As of Tuesday, Pennsylvania voters are no longer able to apply for an absentee or mail-in ballot.
Nearly 40,000 registered voters in the county requested mail ballots. So far, only 24% of them have been returned to the county, by far the lowest rate among the state’s 67 counties. The county with the next-lowest return rate, Fayette, has received 50% of requested ballots.
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I live in the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, which is adjacent to Butler County. I experienced NO DELAY in receiving or sending my ballot. In both directions my ballot was received the next day after sending via U.S. Mail.
October 28, 2020
Interactive map is here: https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/PA.html
Pennsylvania Early Voting Statistics 10/28/20
Interactive map is here: https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/PA.html
October 13, 2020
If this has already been posted - I apologize for the duplication.
Found on Reddit, can't say for sure where this is. (anonymous poster)
Clever and creative Halloween decoration
If this has already been posted - I apologize for the duplication.
Found on Reddit, can't say for sure where this is. (anonymous poster)
October 8, 2020
Let's put our heads together - we need a new concept
What should we call the former Chump voters who have seen the error of their vote in 2016. They're not born again, but maybe they've come over to the good guys? Or maybe they've been liberated?
We should have a term for these people.
September 26, 2020
I've blocked 5 people on DU since 8 o'clock this morning
I feel pretty good about it too!
Anybody who isn't for our Party, anybody who secretly admires Chump, anybody who hints they aren't all in for Biden & Harris - they're getting blocked. Time's too precious to waste on fools and idiots.
September 15, 2020
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U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV, 41 years of age, is a recent Trump appointee to the federal bench in western PA.
Gov. Tom Wolf D-PA hits back after judge rules against virus restrictions
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf vowed Tuesday he wouldn’t heed the “irresponsible demands” of President Donald Trump and Republicans in the state Legislature concerning the coronavirus response, hitting back hard after a federal judge appointed by Trump ruled many of Wolf’s pandemic shutdown orders were unconstitutional.
In unusually sharp language, the Democratic governor accused Mr. Trump and Republicans who control the Legislature of promoting conspiracy theories and spreading misinformation about the virus and the status of the Pennsylvania economy, which he said is reopened despite the mitigation measures he has imposed.
“I believe the vast majority of Pennsylvanians understand what we had to do in the beginning was necessary to buy the time to keep people safe before we got the capacity we needed to address this virus,” Mr. Wolf said. “And the vast majority simply don’t buy into the conspiracy theories or fear mongering from the president or from the Harrisburg Republicans about this virus.”
Mr. Wolf spoke at a news conference in York one day after U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV in Pittsburgh invalidated key parts of his administration’s early pandemic response, including his orders requiring people to stay at home and shuttering thousands of businesses deemed “non-life-sustaining.”
Mr. Wolf had since eased many of the restrictions the plaintiffs objected to in their lawsuit, but Judge Stickman also ruled against the state’s current size limits on indoor and outdoor gatherings.
The governor’s lawyers were preparing an appeal.
In unusually sharp language, the Democratic governor accused Mr. Trump and Republicans who control the Legislature of promoting conspiracy theories and spreading misinformation about the virus and the status of the Pennsylvania economy, which he said is reopened despite the mitigation measures he has imposed.
“I believe the vast majority of Pennsylvanians understand what we had to do in the beginning was necessary to buy the time to keep people safe before we got the capacity we needed to address this virus,” Mr. Wolf said. “And the vast majority simply don’t buy into the conspiracy theories or fear mongering from the president or from the Harrisburg Republicans about this virus.”
Mr. Wolf spoke at a news conference in York one day after U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV in Pittsburgh invalidated key parts of his administration’s early pandemic response, including his orders requiring people to stay at home and shuttering thousands of businesses deemed “non-life-sustaining.”
Mr. Wolf had since eased many of the restrictions the plaintiffs objected to in their lawsuit, but Judge Stickman also ruled against the state’s current size limits on indoor and outdoor gatherings.
The governor’s lawyers were preparing an appeal.
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U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV, 41 years of age, is a recent Trump appointee to the federal bench in western PA.
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