Twenty-one counties (almost a third of the state’s 67 counties) did not even start counting mail-in ballots until Wednesday morning.
Many of the important races in Pennsylvania are still far from over.
The state issued a little more than 3 million mail-in ballots. Voters returned approximately 2.57 million ballots, and 1.4 million of those ballots (55%) still need to be counted, according to the state’s election dashboard.
It is unclear how many of the approximately 500,000 voters who did not return their mail-in ballots never received them and voted via provisional ballots, which still need to be verified, or received them but chose to vote at the polls instead.
Twenty-one counties (almost a third of the state’s 67 counties) have not even started counting mail-in ballots.
They are: Adams, Armstrong, Beaver, Blair, Bradford, Butler, Cameron, Carbon, Columbia, Crawford, Cumberland, Franklin, Green, Huntington, Indiana, Juniata, Mercer, Montour, Tioga, Venango, and York counties.
It’s not just those rural red areas that the state—and the nation—is waiting on, however.
Philadelphia received more than 350,000 mail-in ballots, and has counted only 75,755 (only about 22%).
Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, received almost 349,000 mail-in ballots, and has counted almost 50% of them.
All of those mail-in ballots will certainly affect the presidential election, but also state-wide offices and many down ballot races.
Patrick Abdalla In 14 years in journalism, Patrick has been a sports writer, entertainment editor, and morning web copy editor. He’s also a certified teacher, once survived a tornado, and had a small plane crash on his street. News seems to find him. He lives in Lackawanna County with his wife and three kids.
