Late this afternoon, Northampton County's canvass board completed its canvass, or official count, of the votes cast during November 5's election. The results will be tabulated by Acting Voting Registrar Amy Hess today. After this, there will be a five-day period in which a petition for a recount or recanvass, The results include some polling precincts that placed their ballot boxes in the wrong bag. It also includes absentee ballots and provisional ballots that were counted.
This process was conducted publicly. Representatives of parties and candidates were welcome, as well as reporters and any person who just wanted to see the laborious process of going through each precinct. I dropped in this afternoon, just as canvassers were counting the provisional ballots. I heard about 300 different pronunciations for Vic Scomillio and Abe Kassis,all from the same person. At one point, Vic was Scosmellio and Abe was Crassus. He eventually started calling them Vic and Abe.
So far as I can determine, no challenges were filed to any of the individual ballots.
In addition to the canvass, the County conducted an audit of approximately 1,500 ballots from one precinct within each of the four county districts. Thankfully, my precinct escaped scrutiny. The precincts picked were Hellertown Borough 1, Wilson Borough 1, Nazareth Borough 2 and Moore Township Beersville. Voting machine vendor ES&S provided four DS200 precinct ballot scanners, and ballot cards from to be used to hand-feed the ES&S provided four DS200 precinct ballot scanners. ExpressVote XL ballot cards from Election Day were hand-fed into these scanners. The results were a 100% match from with the results on Election Night. In addition, a sample of ballots were scanned again, and the machine operator provided a results tape of the sample for a comparison to the human-readable names printed on the ballot cards. This was also a 100% match.
According to a county news release, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania mandates that each County audit a minimum of 2% of ballots after an election to verify election results. Northampton County voters cast 57,680 ballots on November 5th requiring an audit of a minimum of 1,200 ballots.
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Friday, November 15, 2019
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SO Scomillio wins and Kassis loses. now what?
ReplyDeleteScomillio and Morganelli will be the judges
ReplyDeleteWhere do you get Scumbag wins?
ReplyDeleteDid anyone other than administration people show up?
ReplyDeleteany Info on changes to the machines or screens that are being considered?
ReplyDeleteTo the three first posters (mezzaCrazy)
ReplyDeleteYour Meds aren’t working
Please call your psychiatrist and have your medicine altered
Why are the printed ballots in English only? This is not who we are.
ReplyDeleteYou want to come here and participate in our civic life, learn to speak and understand English!
Delete3:22, if you read any news account, you know reporters were there. In addition, candidates and parties sent representatives. Of course the county was there. Elections are a county core function and voting materials are still impounded.
ReplyDeleteThe election should be redone in it's entirety. McClueless is to blame.
ReplyDeleteThe 2016 election should be redone in it's entirety. Cluelessness is to blame.
ReplyDeleteKeep counting 'til you get the result you desire. It's as American as apple pie.
ReplyDeleteHow do you trust a scanner from a company whose machines have already failed. And the fact that uncounted voted keep randomly appearing
ReplyDeleteIn a single election cycle, McClure converted the entire county to Republican. Banana Republican. Man, he's good.
ReplyDeleteNo one is defending it.
ReplyDeleteNorco's election is ready-made for SNL.
ReplyDeleteThese comments are classic. Scomillio wins?? How? The boy got beat. People figured out his past misdeeds. He isn't judge material. I actually thought about voting for him next time but after this hissy fit and his incredible denial of his loss. He lost my vote
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