Election staff in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania have just decided to stop counting their outstanding 35k mail-in ballots and take the day off for administrative work:
Allegheny County, PA still has 35,413 uncounted mail-in ballots, but elections staff is taking today off for "administrative work" and will not resume count until Friday. "I can't get an answer as to why,'' says @bethanyhallam, a member of county elections board.
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) November 5, 2020
They won’t resume counting until tomorrow? It’s not like we have an election hanging in the balance or something. Geez.
Here’s more from Gabriel who just tweeted this:
Per email from county to elex board, those 35,413 include about 29,000 ballots sent to voters who first got wrong ballots (they have to be double-checked to ensure no one voted twice). Also, unscannable ballots & some missing dates or illegible signatures…2/
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) November 5, 2020
The elections staff is apparently addressing some of these issues in its "administrative work" today. 3/3
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) November 5, 2020
Yeah, apparently. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯