Pennsylvania election boards are as bad as the Keystone Kops
All votes will not be counted until six days after the primary election
The boards of election in the Keystone State are building a reputation for incompetence that rivals that of the Keystone Kops.
Pennsylvania has still not counted all the votes from the Tuesday primary election, and they will not finish until next Monday, according to an article from the Detroit News.
The Detroit News reported at 3:44 p.m. on Thursday, May 19, 2022, that Dr. Mehmet Oz had a lead over David McCormick of 1240 votes out of 1,334,376 that were cast for the Republican nomination for United States Senator for the state of Pennsylvania, and that 17,000 Republican ballots were not yet counted. The final count was not expected before next Monday, and the deadline for the final results is next Tuesday.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/05/19/pennsylvania-senate-gop-primary-oz-mccormick-tied/9843345002/
The Gateway Pundit reported that Dr. Oz had a lead over David McCormick of 1115 votes, as of 10:44 a.m. Friday, May 20, 2022.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/banana-republic-pennsylvania-still-not-counted-provisional-military-ballots-gop-senate-primary-race-results-allegheny-county-not-expected-monday/
At 8:44 p.m. on Friday, May 20, 2022, the official PA elections website stated that 1,340,219 votes had been counted and Dr. Oz had a lead of 1079 votes.
https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/
Any difference of less than 0.5% between the top two candidates in the final vote will trigger an automatic recount, which seems to be virtually assured.
This is yet another example of a broken election process in Pennsylvania. All mail-in ballots should be required to be in the possession of the election officials by 5:00 p.m. on the day BEFORE Election Day. This would avoid this tortuous process of counting errant and questionable votes, as the election officials present at the voting wards on Election Day could count the mail-in ballots right then and there during the election, with the mail-in totals becoming available at 8:00 p.m. when the polls close. It would be a decentralized process where each ward counts its own ballots, and this would make it much harder to coordinate fraud across the state as many more officials would be present, and the counting would occur during the day rather than late at night. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, as criminals dislike committing crimes in broad daylight with multiple witnesses.
What we see instead is that there is almost another week of potential shenanigans, where fake ballots can be slipped into the pile after the fact to swing a very close election. This is also a primary, where turnout was low. A higher turnout in an autumn election would mean many more ballots to count and an even longer delay. If they can't handle a primary election without taking six days to count the votes, then would it take them two or three weeks to get an "official" count for a close final election?
This also gives corrupt officials a window of opportunity lasting for at least six days during which they can manufacture paper ballots to "back-fill" any fraudulent electronic data. Many people noticed peculiar spikes in the vote counts in the wee hours of the morning after the 2020 Presidential election, where Biden suddenly had a huge number of votes added and Trump had zero votes added. This was highly suspicious, to put it in the mildest terms possible. In Pennsylvania "mail-in" votes with no postmarks that mysteriously arrived on the counting tables were counted until 5:00 p.m. on the Friday after Election Day. This gave fraudsters three more days to stuff the boxes with fake paper ballots to "make up" the gap created by the mysterious vertical leap in Biden's electronic vote total in the first four hours of Wednesday morning.
It may seem to be "old hat" to recap the 2020 election, but the same damn thing is happening again in 2022. This needs to stop, and in November voters should only elect candidates that propose serious election reform. The window of opportunity for post-election fraud should be slammed shut and locked down permanently.