In her county, she usually sees about 10,000 to 12,000 absentee ballot applications during a presidential general election year. Olivieri said she has 50,000 absentee and mail-in ballot applications that have already been approved right now. The delay in finalizing the ballot is a troubling sign for Pennsylvania, which already had a primary marked by a weeks-long delay in ballot counting. Democrats are pushing Republicans to make changes to the election law that would allow mail-in ballots to be opened three weeks before Election Day. The editorial, however, did not suggest mail-in voting will lead to voter fraud, as the President has suggested multiple times.

Source: CNN September 13, 2020 23:37 UTC