Delco Envelope Examination Ends; County Praised — An examination of ballot envelopes in Delaware County, Pa. at The Wharf in Chester ended soon after noon, today, July 19.
The envelopes were from the May 16 primary election. The examination took about seven hours over two days with six stations. The examiners — all volunteers — photographed each envelope signature.
The request had been made by Delaware County Council candidate Joy Schwartz and poll watchers Greg Stenstrom, Leah Hoopes and Paul Rumley.
Stenstrom said they found no discrepancies between the 25,000 vote tally reported by the county and the number of envelopes. He thanked the county and praised the county poll workers for their cooperation and assistance.
Stenstrom said they will process the data and report back.
Mrs. Schwartz and the poll watchers made the request to examine the envelopes shortly after the election, which the county perversely fought for nearly two month taking it all the way to Commonwealth Court.
Stenstrom said the envelope images are stored on the county’s BlueCrest sorters and dozens of man-hours — including paid county labor — would have been saved if the Delco just gave them the images on a disk.
He had also made this point at the 9-hour hearing, Nov. 28, before Judge Barry Dozor.
Delco Envelope Examination Ends; County Praised
Hmmm. So the number of scanned envelopes matched the number of mailed-in votes counted. Without the chain of custody information, that does not mean the ballots actually “counted” were the same ballots that were in the envelopes. The problem is that we DO NOT get to see in real time anything regarding chain of custody and we have 50 pre-election days to contend with that in PA. It is the complete lack of transparency by the vast majority of election managers combined with their total opposition if anyone seeks transparency that has created the high levels of mistrust by so many members of the public. Until we institute publicly available 24/7 recorded video surveillance and get rid of centralized counting of ballots, public confidence in the mail-in voting system will be lower than Joe Biden’s popularity rating.
Great points!!