Voter turnout in Northwest Philadelphia appeared to be going steady as of press time on Tuesday, although numbers did not appear to be overwhelming.
Judge of Elections Jane Century said that by 8:30 a.m. in Mt. Airy's 9th Ward the flow of voters had been steady, "but a little slower than I expected, given all the publicity." Century said she had been contacted by several voters who showed up at the United Lutheran Seminary polling location to fill out a provisional ballot because they feared their mailed ballot was flawed.
City commissioners reported on Saturday that up to …
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Voter turnout in Northwest Philadelphia appeared to be going steady as of press time on Tuesday, although numbers did not appear to be overwhelming.
Judge of Elections Jane Century said that by 8:30 a.m. in Mt. Airy's 9th Ward the flow of voters had been steady, "but a little slower than I expected, given all the publicity." Century said she had been contacted by several voters who showed up at the United Lutheran Seminary polling location to fill out a provisional ballot because they feared their mailed ballot was flawed.
City commissioners reported on Saturday that up to 3,500 mailed ballots may have been incorrectly filled out, causing some last minute confusion. These were ballots that had been submitted without a signature, undated ballots, ballots that were incorrectly dated and ballots submitted without a secrecy envelope - also known as a “naked ballot.”
Early in the morning on Tuesday, city commissioners voted to institute a “reconciliation” process designed to help voters fix those ballots at city hall.
That process, called reconciliation, is designed to weed out potential double votes. The process is expected to make the vote counting process slower than other Pennsylvania counties, which do not use reconciliation.
Republican Seth Bluestein and Democrat Lisa Deeley voted in favor. Democrat Omar Sabir was the lone City Commissioner to vote against.
