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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Today is Last Day to Apply For Mail-in Ballot

Today is the last day you can apply for a mail-in ballot (MIB). Your application must be received by elections officials no later than 5 PM. To be on the safe side, you can apply in person at the county elections office or fill out and send an application online with this link.  

If you fail to make the cutoff for a MIB or dislike that method, you can vote at your precinct on election day. 

As of yesterday, over 87 million voters have requested MIBs nationwide, and 64 million (including 21 million early voters) have been returned. This is already 46.4% of the 2016 turnout. 

In Pennsylvania, over 3 million ballots have been requested, with 1.7 million returned. Nearly 70% of the ballots returned are from Democrats.

In Lehigh County, 36,567 of 86,160 requested ballots have been returned. In NorCo, 54,784 of 81,306 requested ballots have been returned.

Lehigh has rejected none of these ballots. NorCo has rejected just two. Statewide, 311 ballots have been rejected. Presumably, these rejections are the result of a voter's failure to properly endorse a voter's declaration. Counties have been directed to reject all naked ballots (ballots that the voter places inside a secrecy envelope), but are unable to make that determination until the envelopes are opened on election day. 

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 27, 2020 at 2:28 AM

    People should not be waiting until the last day to either request or return ballots. At the moment, ballots can be received up until 3 days past Election Day BUT EXPECT THAT TO NOT BE ALLOWED. Republicans are going back to the Supreme Court to ask again to have that struck down, now that Barrett is sworn in. It was a 4-4 vote a week ago and this time it will likely be 5-4. Mail your ballots TOMORROW or better yet hand carry them. With all the publicity about the post office being hobbled (and it has been - delivery is way slower than a month ago) there is no excuse for waiting.

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  2. Bernie O'HareOctober 27, 2020 at 9:14 AM

    I believe it is best at this point to take them to a drop box.

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