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Crime Syndicate: Judge Orders PA Extend Hours as Thousands MORE Ballots Go Missing
Judge Orders PA Elections Board to Extend Hours as Thousands MORE Mail Ballots Go Missing
Supreme Court Had Allowed Pennsylvania to Count Contested Ballots, Rejecting Republican Plea
MSNRAW 3 NOV 2024
A judge has ordered the Erie County Board of Elections to extend its operating hours and take other steps to ensure that thousands of voters who requested mail ballots but did not receive them can still get mail ballots and return them by the Election Day deadline.
The judges order comes after the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania sued the county in an attempt to get officials to remedy the problems.
Republicans objected
So this week, we headed to court to make sure that those voters have a chance to vote; and we won, a senior Harris campaign official said on a call with reporters Friday. Erie is now extending hours through the weekend for local voters, and they are overnighting ballots to voters who may be out of state.
We certainly wish that these errors didnt happen, but in a country with elections administered at the local level, with almost 200,000 precincts, isolated incidents are inevitable.
The Democratic Party filed the suit on Wednesday, with the support of Vice President Kamala Harris? presidential campaign, and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania was added as an intervenor on Thursday.
Erie Court of Common Pleas Judge David Ridge ordered the elections board to remain open over the weekend Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. and Monday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The issues in Erie began with an Ohio-based third-party vendor, ElectionIQ, a contractor that prints and mails the countys mail ballots put some ballots in 'WRONG' envelopes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgWYjTO26_k
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