Gov. Tom Wolf urges patience as vote count continues
Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said Tuesday night that there were only isolated problems at the polls and no significant issues reported during Tuesday election.
They also reiterated people to be patient as the votes are tallied.
“I encourage all of us to take a deep breath and be patient,” Wolf said. “I’m urging Pennsylvanians to be calm, stay patient and remain calm in the days ahead.”
We still have over 1 million mail ballots to count in Pennsylvania.
I promised Pennsylvanians that we would count every vote and that’s what we’re going to do.
— Governor Tom Wolf (@GovernorTomWolf) November 4, 2020
The state is ready to defend any judicial challenges brought to halt the process before it is finished, Wolf said.
“We’re going to stand up to anybody who wants to silence the Pennsylvanians who voted,” Wolf said. “Free and fair elections are a bedrock of our democracy. Today, the people of Pennsylvania have spoken, and the vote of every Pennsylvanian will be counted.”
The process went “remarkably smoothly” given in was the first presidential election where voters were allowed to request a mail-in ballot without having an excuse that kept them from going to the polls, Boockvar said.
The few reports of confusion at the polls were isolated and the result of election workers and voters adapting to new voting procedures, Boockvar said.
Tom Davidson is a TribLive news editor. He has been a journalist in Western Pennsylvania for more than 25 years. He can be reached at tdavidson@triblive.com.
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