![]() Voters guide: Election 2022: Your guide to the Pennsylvania general election ![]() Voters Guide: Election 2022: Your guide to the 9th Congressional District race Out of the ballots scanned into the state system as of Thursday morning, 2,374 mail-in votes came from Republicans and and 4,083 mail-in votes came from Democrats. We had, it's just our temporary workers were desperately trying to scan them in while they were trying to answer the phones, and instead of doing a 1,000 (ballots) a day they were doing dozens."ĭrasher added most of those calls were about the mail-in ballots. "So what that did was, in the portal for the state, it look like we haven't received a bunch of ballots back. "As the mail imbalance started rolling in, the (mail-in ballots) were kept securely in the vault, but they weren't scanned in the day they came in," he said. Drasher said two weeks ago the bureau's phone lines were so busy, officials pulled workers to answer resident's questions. 31, WHTM-27 reported that only 39% of mail-in ballots had been returned in Lebanon County according to the Pennsylvania Department of State data. Voters can drop their ballot off at the elections office or the drop box at the county courthouse, 400 S. Any ballots received after that date, even those with a Nov. Mail-in ballots must be in the hands of election officials by 8 p.m. "So despite the slow response, we are doing very, very well in returns." "We are trending to have a higher return rate than last year and maybe even crack the all-time," he said.
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