{"id":2370400,"date":"2024-11-18T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-controlled-pa-board-tosses-142-ballots-in-trump-stronghold\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:15:11","slug":"dem-controlled-pa-board-tosses-142-ballots-in-trump-stronghold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-controlled-pa-board-tosses-142-ballots-in-trump-stronghold\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem-Controlled Pa. Board Tosses 142 Ballots In Trump Stronghold"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-controlled-pa-board-tosses-142-ballots-in-trump-stronghold%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2370400&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article \u2063discusses a\u200c significant\u200c issue in the Luzerne County elections in Pennsylvania,\u2064 where the Democrat-led Election Board rejected 142 \u2062mail-in \u2064ballots from a district that \u2064historically supports\u2062 Donald Trump. This\u200c decision stemmed from a clerical error \u200dby \u200delection staff,\u200b who mixed the ballots with others, leading to their disqualification. <\/p>\n<p>The affected \u200cballots were from the 119th Legislative District, and their rejection occurred after it was found that the county had issued new ballots\u200c to voters due to a previous error in the original\u2063 ballots. On Election Day, \u2062numerous\u2064 mail-in\u200b ballots arrived improperly\u200b processed, making\u2062 it difficult to identify the voters and their \u200dintentions. Consequently, many\u2063 voters may\u200d have been disenfranchised due \u200dto what officials described as &#8220;sloppy clerical practices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-charged-in-stabbing-death-of-another-alleged-subway-menace\/\" title=\"Man accused of killing another alleged subway troublemaker now faces charges.\">incident raises concerns<\/a> about\u2063 election integrity in Luzerne County\u200d and has\u2064 been highlighted by election activists, including Trump&#8217;s supporters, who worry\u200b about the\u2063 reliability of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-is-using-bidenbucks-to-encourage-illegals-and-felons-to-vote-says-mississippi-secretary-of-state\/\" title=\"Mississippi Secretary of State claims DOJ uses Bidenbucks to promote illegal voting by felons\">local election\u200c administration<\/a>. the article emphasizes the implications of this mistake and the potential 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class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>The Democrat-led Luzerne County Election Board voted Friday to reject 142 mail-in ballots from a Donald Trump-voting stronghold in Pennsylvania after staffers screwed up the ballot processing.<\/p>\n<p>The votes came from the 119th Legislative District, a portion of Lucerne County. This year, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensvoice.com\/2024\/11\/06\/trump-dominates-luzerne-county-once-again-to-win-pa-white-house\/\">received <\/a>90,370 votes in Luzerne County, while Vice President Kamala Harris received 59,966 votes. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2018\/10\/17\/pennsylvania-trump-2016-election\">flipped <\/a>the county red by double digits in 2016. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9cf301afe34e25af78431c30d8ef94d9 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9cf301afe34e25af78431c30d8ef94d9\"><\/div>\n<p>But his 20-point lead in 2024 isn&rsquo;t as large as it could be because 142 ballots were disqualified because an election worker mixed them in with others. If the margin were tighter, these tossed ballots also could have affected the recount between Republican Senate candidate David McCormick and Democrat candidate Bob Casey.<\/p>\n<p>Election workers were supposed to segregate thousands of mail-in ballots that arrived on Election Day because the county had sent roughly 7,000 new ballots out to voters after it discovered the original ballots had a spelling error. The ballots had to be segregated because &ldquo;the board had intended to revisit the original ones and accept them if the voters never returned a new one,&rdquo; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/news\/1673713\/luzerne-county-election-board-votes-to-reject-mail-ballots-involved-in-mistaken-unsealing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Times Leader<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Only one ballot can be counted. Then an election worker made a mistake that made this original plan impossible. On Election Day 1,301 mail-in ballots were mistakenly opened and separated from their outer envelopes, according to Times Leader. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">outer envelope includes identifying information<\/a> about the voter.<\/p>\n<p>The county determined that of the 1,301 ballots returned on Election Day, 1,159 came from voters who also submitted one of the reissued ballots that was accepted and counted, according to Times Leader. But the county says it was unable to determine whether 142 ballots that had been removed from their outer envelopes were cast by a voter who had also sent in a reissued ballot, so the county rejected them. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8eea1fc155faa1c8335294f2911d892a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8eea1fc155faa1c8335294f2911d892a\"><\/div>\n<p>This means that, due to what election officials describe as sloppy clerical practices, 142 voters may have been disenfranchised.<\/p>\n<p>Luzerne County has been the focus of election integrity activists, including the president-elect. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/11\/03\/luzerne-county-pennsylvania-election-absentee-ballots\/\">The Washington Post<\/a> reported before the election that Trump and his supporters &ldquo;have homed in on allegations that local election administrators could be undermining the process and can&rsquo;t be trusted.&rdquo; Why should voters trust a county in which an election worker&rsquo;s error could have resulted in 142 voters&rsquo; ballots being tossed?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-bbe97bf29ffb5fbd7d5cf5262d698286 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-bbe97bf29ffb5fbd7d5cf5262d698286\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. 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