Philadelphia Absentee ballots will not be counted until tomorrow morning....

NBC just reported that Republicans had sought and received and injunction against counting Philly's absentee ballots because they say the Dems did not give them a full list of voters that could then be challenged.  Apparently the lawyers have to meet tomorrow at 9:30 to sort this out.  Apparently, its' tens of thousands of votes and Philly party registration is 5:1 Dem...  Pennsylvania may not be declared until tomorrow it appears....

•  Not close enough to matter.

  PA will be blue by 4-5%.

  by Omar on Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 04:10:36 PM PDT

•  More Republican Shenanigans

  I hope the Kerry campaign has some good lawyers before the Republicans try to steal the election right before the Nation's eyes.  

  by Oracle2021 on Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 04:10:59 PM PDT

•  PA is still a problem

  From TNR...

  WASHINGTON, D.C., 7:31 p.m.: I just spoke to a Democratic campaign worker in Pennsylvania who said the southwestern corner of the state is suffering from a massive shortage of provisional ballots. These ballots, required by the 2002 Help America Vote Act, are for voters whose names do not appear on the rolls. The organizer I spoke with said the normal procedure when such voters appear at a polling place is to call the county election office to verify whether the voter is not in the registration database at all or is simply missing from the printout. But at least in Washington County, where the Democrat I spoke with was located, the phones apparently weren't working; first they were completely down, then they were constantly busy. Poll workers, he said, were thus unable to get through, and many voters who perhaps should have been able to vote on a regular ballot were forced to vote on a provisional one. This huge, seemingly unanticipated demand for ballots reportedly led to many voters not being able to vote at all. According to the campaign worker, the problem first cropped up around college campuses, where many voters are newly registered and thus not on registration lists, but it quickly spread across the county. Apparently Allegheny County is experiencing similar difficulties. Election officials, he said, are now trying to remedy the problem, but it takes time to prepare the ballots (which have to be folded and sealed) and drive them out to rural areas. Whether the officials should have foreseen these problems is unclear--the campaign worker I was speaking with attributed it to "laziness, ineptitude, and lack of preparation."

  --Alexander Barnes Dryer
  The New Republic

  by myjlf on Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 04:47:24 PM PDT