Daily News | Philly is considering a last-minute change that will slow down the counting of votes
, there were none caught in the last three elections. City officials also said their reconciliation process, which pauses the vote count, appeared to conflict with rules Republican lawmakers placed on new state funding. Those rules require counties to count mail ballots around the clock until finished.
“The Commissioners stand by their vote to discontinue pre-counting reconciliation,” the commissioners wrote. “But because the trial court’s opinion has cast unwarranted doubt on the integrity of Philadelphia’s election at the eleventh hour and risks feeding disinformation campaigns that seek to cultivate distrust in the democratic process, [commissioners] are currently considering whether to implement poll book reconciliation in this election cycle,” the commissioners wrote.
Philly had previously gone beyond what other counties did. In 2020, with the dramatic expansion of mail voting in Pennsylvania, officials made poll book reconciliation part of the process for counting mail ballots. That’s because some voters who request and return their mail ballots close to Election Day won’t be marked in the poll books as using mail ballots.
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