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Al Schmidt: “Counties in every election, for every vote, whether a race…”

Featuring: Al Schmidt, Republican | Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Secretary of Commonwealth Reminds Voters to Prepare for May 19 Primary Election

Published | Video Starts at 26:51

It's as simple as your phone or an iPad or or whatever else and then still printed ink on paper, paper ballot record for the counties to tabulate the Counties in every election, for every vote, whether a race is close or not close, count every eligible vote that's cast. So if one person writes in one name for something, they still go to the trouble to make sure to go through all of those ballots and record the vote totals. (26:51–27:02)

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Asserts that counties count every eligible vote in every election, regardless of how close the race is.

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