Pennsylvania update:
Remember when I was frantically emailing and posting about Pennsylvania voters who had ordered absentee ballots, but understood it was important to vote in person because they distrust Trump’s mail? And many people were saying you may have to use a provisional ballot?
Many of those voters were Democrats and especially people of color.
Well, update from MSNBC:
“Pennsylvania officials say a lot of the remaining votes are provisional ballots cast in urban precincts on Election Day, and they are the last votes we count.”
Biden already has a good lead with lots of Biden batches to count. Nate Silver says the red areas have a few more votes left than we have thought, but they’re small and not as red as the rest of those counties. The PA count has been slowed down by Trump lawsuits and 2 mechanical/logistical errors, but it’s still on track. Still no legal basis to stop the count or reverse the lead. PA Dems still say they project a win by 100,000, but it’s going more slowly than they hoped.
8 pm update: “The Pennsylvania SOS office is reporting 100K mail ballots left to be counted statewide. The top six counties are all Biden counties, with a combined 70K (inc 35K in Allegheny, 23K in Philly). Biden’s lead will just keep going up.”
And the Biden 80/20 pace continues in Allegheny County: link.
