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BumRushDaShow

(143,526 posts)
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 07:07 AM Nov 2

Judge orders Erie elections board to extend hours as thousands of mail ballots remain missing

Source: Pennsylvania Capital-Star

November 1, 2024 9:35 pm


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 judge’s order comes after the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania sued the county in an attempt to get officials to remedy the problems.

“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 didn’t 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.

Read more: https://penncapital-star.com/election-2024/pennsylvania-judge-orders-erie-elections-board-to-extend-hours-as-thousands-of-mail-ballots-remain-missing/

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Judge orders Erie elections board to extend hours as thousands of mail ballots remain missing (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 2 OP
Marc Elias saving our democracy gab13by13 Nov 2 #1
Just stop. BumRushDaShow Nov 2 #3
Second that!! Elias for USAG!! 🌊🇺🇸🌊🇺🇸🌊🇺🇸 onetexan Nov 2 #2
The way it should be: Order in America because here comes the judge! GreenWave Nov 2 #4

gab13by13

(25,302 posts)
1. Marc Elias saving our democracy
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 07:31 AM
Nov 2

doing the work of the civil rights division of DOJ.

1st order of business for Kamala should be to ask for Merrick Garland's resignation.

Good move though on the part of the Democratic party of Pennsylvania to go to Elias instead of Garland.

BumRushDaShow

(143,526 posts)
3. Just stop.
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 08:37 AM
Nov 2

You seem to be missing out of this thread - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143332615

The spreading of misinformation about a Democratic administration is tiresome.

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