75% of Mail-In Ballots in One Pennsylvania County Are Unaccounted For (66% of Butler County went Trump in 2016)

Over 30,000 mail-in ballots in Butler County Pennsylvania are unaccounted for causing county election officials to urge voters to utilize one of a few other options

40,000 voters in Butler County Pennsylvania requested mail-in ballots but election officials have confirmed that only 24 percent of those ballots – over 30,000 ballots – have not yet been returned for tabulation.
Butler County went for President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016 by a 2-to-1 margin, about 66 percent to 29 percent. It is located north of Pittsburgh and boasts approximately 150,000 registered voters. This means nearly one-fifth of all voters in that county have to scramble if they want their votes counted in the 2020 General Election.

“At first we thought that maybe it just was a delay in the postal system” due to the high number of ballot requests that were tendered, Leslie Osche, chair of the Butler County commissioners said to reporters. “And that could still be the case. But nonetheless, when we realized that, we changed our strategy and now have begun to tell folks that if they haven’t received a ballot, they still have multiple options.”

“Our main focus, because it’s too late now to worry about this,” Osche said, “we need to make sure we get these people their ballots.”

“Somewhere between the post office and the Pittsburgh sorting facility something happened,” Butler County official Aaron Sheasley said. “We don’t know what.” He added: “We haven’t given out any numbers” about the number of missing ballots “because we simply don’t know.”


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Last Edited by Slowly awakening on 11/02/2020 02:01 PM