It was therefore necessary to avoid a similar scenario for this 2024 election, and the local authorities pulled out all the stops to ensure an election without suspicion. Even if Donald Trump has already mentioned “cheating” in relation to some irregularities noted several days ago.
“Since 2020, we have been able to improve the procedure, resize the number of staff, order more scanners“, explains a communications manager from a county in Pennsylvania to BFMTV. “We use a very fast envelope opener. The machine can open 15,000 envelopes per hour. We should have finished counting and be able to give all the results by midnight“, she assures.
Lawyers present in number
Other measures have been put in place to avoid any suspicion. An army of lawyers are mobilized across the state to immediately counter any litigation, which would avoid a delay in the announcement of the results.
Pennsylvania is one of the major keys to this election, and its outcome could decide the future of the presidential election. Kamala Harris and Donald even held their last campaign meeting there this Monday, in the hope of continuing the Democratic trend that has reigned since 1990. In 2016, however, the votes went towards Donald Trump, before changing sides to 2020 to turn to Joe Biden.
