Patience Needed as Counties Process Accurate Election Results

Lisa Schaefer

Executive Director

County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania

For the past several months, counties have been pleading with the General Assembly and administration to change the state’s election laws that would allow counties to begin pre-canvassing absentee and mail-in ballots before Election Day. As there are now no more legislative session days scheduled before November 3, it appears these pleas will go unanswered for this election, depriving counties of valuable time to take care of manual tasks that would have helped us have as many votes as possible counted on electio...