Allegheny County officials confident mail-in ballots will be counted on election night

Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania are widely expected to take days to count after the election, but not in Allegheny County. Members of the Allegheny County Board of Elections expressed confidence in the county’s ballot-counting system during a pre-election meeting Tuesday afternoon, but also discussed some practical concerns about mail-in voting as the number of Allegheny County mail-ins surpasses a quarter million.

The Board of Elections’ three members, County Executive Sara Innamorato, Republican Council Member Sam DeMarco, and Democratic Council Member Bethany Hallam, spoke to a panel of elections officials led by David Voye, manager of the Division of Elections.

The county’s 222 elections workers should be able to canvass the mail-in votes – in other words, count them and ensure that they are valid – by the end of election night, and workers will not stop counting the ballots once they have started, said Jessica Garofolo, the director of the Department of Administrative Services.

Mr. DeMarco said that he was confident that Allegheny County would not be a part of any delay in election returns and praised Mr. Voye’s leadership.




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