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Al Schmidt: “Mail in ballot voting was relatively new to Pennsylvania in…”

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

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Al Schmidt on Pennsylvania’s ‘frustrating’ mail-in vote count process

Published | Video Starts at 00:50

I wonder if you could talk a little bit about what happened and what we should expect this year that might be different to help change the narrative about the way it works in Pennsylvania. Mail in ballot voting was relatively new to Pennsylvania in 20. I mean, it had passed in 2019 from a republican house and a Republican Senate and signed by a democratic governor. We had had absentee ballot voting before, which occurred on a small percentage of our voters cast their votes that way, but it was pretty new. (00:50–01:04)

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Asserts that mail-in ballot voting was introduced in Pennsylvania in 2019 by a bipartisan effort.

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