One of the reasons so many Trump supporters are convinced the election was “stolen” in Pennsylvania was because the initial counts were heavily Trump, but as the mail-in ballots were counted, Biden pulled ahead. This had been predicted, since Biden supporters voted by mail-in ballots overwhelmingly, but Trump voters tended to vote in person.
All of this could have been avoided, of course, if the legislature had allowed mail-in ballots to be counted before election day. R Republicans legislators said no, quite possibly because they wanted to claim fraud when Trump lost.
In the May 18 primary we will see the same kinds of problems with the count because once again Republican legislators are not permitting mail-in ballots to be counted early. They will then use the delay in getting the results as an excuse to get rid of mail-in ballots. The hypocrisy and cynicism of Pennsylvania Republican legislators is truly staggering.
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