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Melissa Hart: “Certain ballots, if they were dated, were counted in…”

Featuring: Melissa Hart, Conservative | Former Candidate, Governor of Pennsylvania

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Strengthening Trust in Our Elections_ A Conversation with the Democracy Defense Project

Published | Video Starts at 36:22

And the unfortunate and the lack of uniformity, which we've worked to try to improve, and so has Secretary Schmidt, that Certain ballots, if they were dated, were counted in Allegheny county and not counted if they weren't dated in Westmoreland. So what you had is fewer of the votes out of Westmoreland county were counted than the votes out of Allegheny, which benefited one of the candidates over the other. (36:22–36:31)

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Asserts that there was a lack of uniformity in counting ballots between Allegheny and Westmoreland counties.

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