There are still approximately 35,000 outstanding mail-in ballots in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, but results could start coming in today, CNN’s Brian Todd reports from an elections returns warehouse in Pittsburgh.
“Some of those were postmarked before Election Day, some were postmarked on Election Day. They’re arriving and they didn’t start counting until after Election Day,” Todd reports.
Inside the election returns warehouse in Pittsburgh, Todd described the vote counting process.
“These are the people doing the most critical work. They’re called the return board,” he explained.
“They’re counting ballots right now. Right now, the ballots that we’re told they’re counting are from military members overseas … who have registered to vote in this county. Earlier, they went through damaged ballots,” Todd said.
He added that the return board members had counted about 3,000 damaged ballots of the 35,000 outstanding ballots. “We’re told they have about 3,500 military and overseas ballots that they’re going through,” Todd also noted.
There are an additional 29,000 other ballots that need to be counted as well, which are being segregated because they had the “wrong information put on them when they were mailed out. That was corrected,” Todd said.
“They were re-mailed out and then people mailed them back, but because of that issue, by court order, they’ve got to be counted starting at 5 p.m. ET today,” Todd explained.
Todd explained that there is an observer watching the voting process from behind.
“Very transparent process,” Todd said, noting that there are cameras mounted in the room and monitors showing the voting process.
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