Centre County Officials 'Set the Record Straight' on Ballot Counting

Centre County’s ballot-counting decisions were misrepresented in national reporting surrounding a state Supreme Court ruling this week, county officials said on Tuesday.

The court ruled on Monday that Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties could not count misdated and undated mail ballots in their results from the Nov. 5 election. Centre County was not part of the case and had only three ballots with date issues in question, but multiple national media outlets inaccurately grouped it with the three counties that had sought to include hundreds of contested ballots.

The reporting prompted the Centre County commissioners — who are also the Board of Elections — to “set the record straight,” at Tuesday’s meeting, elections chair Amber Concepcion said.

Misreported information may have been taken from court filings or from political press releases that “do not correctly state the facts related to Centre County and undated mail-in or absentee ballots,” she added.




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