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Nevilledog

(51,006 posts)
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 04:12 PM Nov 2020

Only *535* Philadelphians voted by mail with ballots received during the three-day extension



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Adam Bonin
@adambonin
Yo, Philly: you told your friends, "don't wait to vote, and don't trust the mail. Use dropboxes!"

They listened! In the end, only *535* Philadelphians voted by mail with ballots received during the three-day extension. Astounding.

Philadelphia Counted Over 500 Mail Ballots Received During Disputed Extension - WSJ.com
Philadelphia counted 535 ballots that arrived in the mail during the state’s hotly-disputed extended deadline, a city election official said Sunday. That included 385 votes for President-elect Joe...
wsj.com
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Only *535* Philadelphians voted by mail with ballots received during the three-day extension (Original Post) Nevilledog Nov 2020 OP
DO OVER!! underpants Nov 2020 #1
Rudy Giuliani would be very surprised if this was true! jcgoldie Nov 2020 #2
WSJ of course seems to be parsing this in a way as to make it sound nefarious that they were counted mr_lebowski Nov 2020 #3
I would've loved that number to be 537. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Nov 2020 #4
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. WSJ of course seems to be parsing this in a way as to make it sound nefarious that they were counted
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 04:30 PM
Nov 2020

When in fact SCOTUS (Justice Alito, no less) said it was fine to count them, they just needed to know the what the count was, distinct from the ones received before the deadline.

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