Only 96,000 voters requested ballots in Philly, so why did Joe Biden get 339,403 mailed votes?
In spite of Pennsylvania officials changing the rules to “no excuses” mailed ballots, you still had to request one for the 2020 election. Mailed votes ballooned from roughly 13,000 in 2016 in Philadelphia to more than 300,000! And Pennsylvania’s open data portal shows records for only 96,000 ballot requests.
Why is no one talking about this?
An aggregate site called United States Elections Project, electproject.org, put out data that more than 400,000 mail ballots had been requested in Philadelphia County out of more than a million registered voters. But the state’s data says otherwise.
However, the county of Philadelphia does show a total of 374,373 ballots cast by mail, and 359,952 ballots cast at a polling place. By contrast, in 2016, 696,312 ballots were recorded cast at polling places, while 15,000 were requested and 13,306 were returned, according to the LA Times.
Further, the mail-ballot rejection rate in 2016 was magnitudes higher than in 2020, in spite of showing far fewer total ballots mailed. In 2016, 461 ballots were rejected out of 13,000-plus, an error rate of 3.46 percent. But in 2020, 232 mail ballots were rejected out of a total of 371,798, the state reported. That’s an error rate of 0.1 percent. If the same error rate from 2016 had been applid to Philadelphia in the 2020 election, 12,864 votes would have been rejected as in error. In fact, several major media outlets warned before the election that if 2016’s error rate were applied, it would result in a lot of disenfranchisement. In the end, that error rate simply was not repeated.
Data provided by ElectionProject dot org, run by apparent msm election data guru Michael McDonald, a political science professor at the University of Florida who tweeted on Jan. 16 he was glad that the election misinformation by President Trump had diminished since Twitter had banned him.