1 million Pennsylvania mail ballots returned two weeks before Election Day
Source: WHTM-TV/Harrisburg, PA
Posted: Oct 22, 2024 / 10:29 AM EDT
Updated: Oct 22, 2024 / 11:54 AM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — More than 1 million Pennsylvania voters have returned their mail ballots two weeks before the November 5 election.
According to data provided by the Pennsylvania Department of State on October 22, county election officials have reported receiving 1,051,655 mail ballots as of 8 a.m. Tuesday morning.
So far, 1,870,065 Pennsylvania voters have been approved for a mail ballot, which means approximately 56% of mail ballots distributed so far have already been returned.
These numbers include mail absentee ballots and no-excuse mail-in ballots that must be returned to a county board of elections before 8 p.m. on November 5. Of the more than 1.8 million mail ballots requested, more than 1 million were by registered Democrats. Registered Republicans requested more than 560,000 mail ballots, and the remaining 228,000 were requested by third-party voters.
Read more: https://www.abc27.com/pennsylvania-politics/1-million-pennsylvania-mail-ballots-returned-two-weeks-before-election-day/
Mine is one of those!
= new reply since forum marked as read
delivered it to the post office
on my parent's anniversary 
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Remember -- these ballots don't mean anything until they are tallied (that is, "counted"
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In Virginia, we have three sessions to tally mail-in ballots.
1. One week before Election Day -- Tuesday -- we set up a voting machine(s), open mail-in ballots, check for signatures, etc., then feed the ballots into the scanner. When all are run through the scanner, TURN OFF THE SCANNER, LOCK AND SEAL THE SCANNER.
2. The Saturday before Election Day; open the sealed scanner, turn it on, process all mail-in ballots that have been received since the Tuesday processing session. When all are run through the scanner, TURN OFF THE SCANNER, LOCK AND SEAL THE SCANNER. The scanner which is locked onto the top of a ballot box -- now has inside its ballot box all mail-in ballots received to date.
3. On Election Day, open the sealed scanner, turn it on, process all mail-in ballots that have been received since the Saturday processing session. At 7:00 PM, when polls close, activate the CLOSE POLLS process on the scanner, which prints a tally of all ballots processed since the first pre-processing session on the previous Tuesday. Print four copies of the tally tape -- one for immediate use to report results to State; three to be stapled to three required reports.
4. Late-arriving mail-in ballots are tallied after noon on the Friday after Election Day, provided the ballots are postmarked on or before Election Day. Any ballots not so postmarked are rejected and not tallied.
Thus, by late on election night, in Virginia, we have the results of mail-in voting.
WHEN DOES PENNSYLVANIA TALLY MAIL-IN BALLOTS? Do they wait until Election Day to tally all ballots, or, do they do pre-Election-Day processing with tallying on Election Day?
It boggles the mind. But they can't let a good CT go to waste. 
