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11. I heard on the radio earlier this afternoon

Fri Nov 11, 2022, 07:58 PM

Nov 2022

that confirmed what I had suspected before but that despite the narrative of "Democrats use mail ballots" (implying "only" ) and "Republicans vote in person" (again implying "only" ), the report was that about 70% of the voters here in Philly voted "in person".

KYW Newsradio | News |Local

Pa. election officials point to why races were called faster than in 2020

“2020 is not a good gauge of anything,” a state official said about the election with the COVID-19 pandemic raging

By Pat Loeb, KYW Newsradio
KYW Newsradio
an hour ago

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Pennsylvania and Philadelphia officials had warned voters that results from Tuesday’s elections might take days to finalize. But in fact, the winners of the statewide races were declared within five hours of the polls closing, much faster than expected.

In 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic raging, 2.6 million Pennsylvanians voted by mail, according to Department of State Deputy Secretary for Elections and Commissions Jonathan Marks.

“2020 is not a good gauge of anything,” he said. This time around, the number was less than half the 2020 total.

In Philadelphia, mail-in ballots went from nearly 400,000 in 2020 to 133,000 this year, as more than 70% of voters went to the polls on Election Day.

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https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/pennsylvania-2022-election-race-called-quicker-2020

Since we had pretty much all of our polling locations back and available (vs 2020 when we only had maybe a quarter of them), then people went back to business as usual and voted in person. I did the mail ballot anyway just to get my vote banked early.

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