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Al Schmidt: “That window of time between the polls closing and races…”

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

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Pennsylvania election officials bracing for conspiracy theories, protests

Published | Video Starts at 06:48

We will need to have a whole different seam, unfold them back, fold them to get the creases out as good as we can. How long does it take to process each ballot? Several minutes. It's not like, done in a sec. That window of time between the polls closing and races being called, I think has shown to be a real vulnerability where people seeking to undermine confidence in those results if they're going to lose have really exploited those four days, allowed the big lie to take off. And that's when you start hearing about truckloads of ballots. And that's when you start hearing about, you know, zombie voters. And that's when all this other stuff really starts pouring in. (06:48–07:03)

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Asserts that the delay between polls closing and results being called is exploited to undermine confidence.

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