Past voting controversy shadows Allegheny County executive race
Democrats John Weinstein and David Fawcett crossed paths over alleged voting irregularities in Weinstein's hometown two decades ago.
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Democrats John Weinstein and David Fawcett crossed paths over alleged voting irregularities in Weinstein's hometown two decades ago.
"We had a lot of concern because if the voter doesn't sign the outer envelope of the ballot, their vote will not count," said an ACLU.
County Elections Director Dave Voye told the county's three-member Board of Elections on Tuesday that election workers had received roughly 136,700 mail-in ballots so far. That's an improvement over the 2021 tally of slightly more than 123,000 ballots by the same stage of the election cycle, but well behind the total the county received at a similar point in 2020.
Allegheny County employees started recounting more than 280,000 ballots on Wednesday.
A representative of the Summer Lee for Congress campaign who observed the count left the warehouse upbeat.