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Al Schmidt: “It takes time to count millions of votes.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 08:20

To be a. For Secretary Schmidt, getting out the message can mean late nights answering questions about the electoral process in granular detail. It takes time to count millions of votes. And it's as we saw at this law school in Harrisburg. We're much better prepared today, four years later, than we were. He's teamed up with fellow Republican, former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett. (08:20–08:24)

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Asserts that counting millions of votes is a time-consuming process.

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