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If election officials in Pennsylvania counties had enough time to precanvass ballots before Election Day, it would have precluded the agonizing shift in the presidential results over the next several days.
Those shifts contributed to the controversy that culminated in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, according to information presented by an official in a conservative county who testified Thursday in a House committee hearing that included state Rep. Lou Schmitt, R-Altoona.
Current election law requires precanvassing opening mail ballots, and scanning them without tabulating results to begin no earlier than 7 a.m. on Election Day, but if counties could have precanvassed earlier, mail-in results would have been ready immediately after the polls closed, as soon as election offices hit the tabulation key, said Sullivan County Elections Director Hope Verelst at the latest state government hearing on election reform. ....

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