WaPo Sets Stage for Election Chaos, Results that 'Take Days to Count'

Last Updated on August 1, 2024

Over three months before the 2024 Presidential Election, The Washington Post is setting the stage for electoral chaos, and “election results [that] could again take days to count” in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where the Democrat-dominated courts have upheld Covid-era mail-in voting rules that election watchdogs call unconstitutional.

A recent report from The Washington Post threatens GOP voters and election integrity hawks with the prospect of delayed election results and chaos at vote-counting facilities this November while quoting Democrat lawmakers to get its point across. The report reads staunchly in favor of “pre-canvassing,” a practice where mail-in or drop-box election ballots are opened and counted BEFORE election day.

In states across the country, but especially in presidential battlegrounds, Democrats have demanded that Republicans pass legislation to allow ballots to be filled out, collected, and counted throughout election season but in both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, they’ve been unable to get them to do so.

Now, they appear to be resorting to emotional blackmail, threatening delayed election results and 2020-style chaos at vote-counting facilities, if “pre-canvassing” which is often akin to ballot harvesting, isn’t written into state election laws.

As The Washington Post reported:

“If the electoral college comes down to Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, we might still face a long period where we don’t know the winner,” said Rachel Orey, an elections expert at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

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“It’s reprehensible that they didn’t get it done,” said Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat who was Pennsylvania’s secretary of state during the 2020 election. “This is not rocket science. The reality is that not passing this bill will mean that ballots will take longer to count, which means it will be longer until we have the results of the election.”

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“Do you want the results on election night? Or do you want to wait a day or two?” said Lisa Deeley, a Democratic city commissioner in Philadelphia. “If you want to wait, then wait you will.”