Rep. Byron Donalds Demands that PA Permit Election Officials to Pre-Process Absentee Ballots

In the first one to two minutes of this clip, Republican Rep. Donalds lambasts PA for not permitting officials to start processing absentee ballots before Election Day. He notes that his state of Florida, along with Georgia and many others, permit this, which is why they can get to a more complete count more quickly than PA. Rep. Donalds is right about this( the way @atrupar excerpts the dialogue does not capture this part of the conversation) .

The Republican controlled Senate has refused to permit this unless the Democrats, including the Governor, agree to accept a voter ID law. This same partisan gamesmanship is why PA failed to permit pre-processing last time around, which is part of the reason PA’s vote count could not get closer to completion earlier in 2020 — with all the consequences that followed.

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