Pennsylvania voters looking to cast their votes early have been lining up at county election offices across the state for two weeks.
Republicans and Democrats have been responding to the daily mailers and social media advertising urging Pennsylvanians to “Vote early.” Both parties have pushed this strategy, which allows them to see who has voted, so they can focus advertising on voters who have not yet engaged.
WHY DO YOU THINK BUCKS COUNTRY SHUT DOWN VOTING AT 1:45 INSTEAD OF ALLOWING CITIZENS TO VOTE UNTIL 4:30 P.M.? ANY IDEA?
Bucks County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is shutting down at 1:45 P.M and was supposed to stay open untIl 4:30 P.M. pic.twitter.com/FjSCgHcgHE
— BelannF (@BelannF) October 30, 2024
The thing is, “early voting” does not exactly exist in Pennsylvania. Instead, there is “on demand” voting, a quirk unintentionally created when the state legislature passed Act 77 in 2019, allowing mail-in voting.
Voters who choose the mail-in ballot must request a ballot by the deadline — Tuesday, Oct. 29.
Once completed, the voter may mail it in any mailbox; drop it in a county ballot drop box; or, the preferred method for many voters, fill it out on the spot and hand it in at the counter of the county election office. That has become known as on-demand mail-in voting.
This ballot is stored with all the other mail-in ballots and counted with them, but for those voters who would not trust an envelope of $1,000 cash in
