The Remaining Vote in Pennsylvania Appears to Be Overwhelmingly for Biden

[JonLP24]

President Trump leads by nearly 700,000 votes in Pennsylvania as of 5 a.m. on Wednesday, and Mr. Biden’s chances depend on whether he can win a large percentage of the more than 1.4 million absentee ballots that remain to be counted.

So far, Mr. Biden has won absentee voters in Pennsylvania, 78 percent to 21 percent, according to the Secretary of State’s office. The results comport with the findings of pre-election surveys and an analysis of absentee ballot requests, which all indicated that Mr. Biden held an overwhelming lead among absentee voters.

If Mr. Biden won the more than 1.4 million absentee votes by such a large margin, he would net around 800,000 votes — enough to overcome his deficit statewide.

Of course, there’s no guarantee that Mr. Biden will win the remaining absentee vote by quite so much. But so far, his standing in the tabulated absentee vote has almost exactly matched our pre-election projections for the absentee vote by county, based on New York Times/Siena polling and data from L2, a political data vendor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/upshot/pennsylvania-election-results-ballots.html#click=https://t.co/1RJbcWrBVU

[NoRoadUntravelled]

1. This looks encouraging.

Any idea how long the count will take? Will it be days?

[Mike 03]

2. The New York Times says that they expect PA's votes to

be tabulated by Friday November 6.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-president.html?action=click&module=styln-elections-2020-guide&variant=show&state=default&pgtype=LegacyCollection&region=hub&context=storyline_election_guide

Hover your mouse cursor over PA and the data should show up, and the information about when the votes will be counted is in the note at the bottom.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

3. Thank you!