There has been a refresh of the Pennsylvania Department of State’s display of election returns data, including an update to the department’s website cataloging votes cast by mail and in person, as well as the creation of a supplemental dashboard to show the progress of ballots cast that have not yet been counted, broken down by county.
“Voters, candidates and the press can find the earliest and most complete picture of the unofficial results of the general election on our website, while tracking the progress of the counting in all 67 counties on our dashboard,” said Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar. “We will collaborate with all county election offices to consolidate and post their results as soon as they are available, including itemized results of mail ballots, in person votes at polling places, and provisional ballots, and display how many ballots and precincts remain to be counted beginning at 8 p.m. on election night.”
The department’s vote-counting dashboard will offer frequent updates on the progress of mail and absentee ballot canvassing, as well as precincts completed and provisional ballots fully counted or partially counted.
Visitors to votesPA.com/Counting will be able to see the total number of mail ballots that have been cast and counted as those numbers are reported by the counties. The dashboard will also display the number and percentage of precincts for which polling place voting results have been reported by the counties. In the days after the election, data on provisional ballot counts will be available.
Results will be posted on the main election returns site as the department receives reports from the counties after the polls close at 8 p.m. on Election Day. Until then, the site will only show test data. A demo of the dashboard is available on the website.
In Bucks County, roughly 31 percent of registered voters have submitted their ballots through mail-in or absentee voting, according to the county Board of Elections office. By Monday evening, 151,018 or the 199,206 mail-in or absentee ballots that were distributed by the elections office had been returned. That number will increase through the end of Election Day as voters continue to make use of ballot drop boxes at three county office locations.
Drop boxes will be available at Levittown, Doylestown and Quakertown locations through 8 p.m. Election Day. The Board of Elections office will also be open to the public until 8 p.m. for those requesting or submitting emergency ballots.
