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Mail ballot fight persists in key states, sure to slow count

FILE - Processors work on mail in ballots for the Pennsylvania Primary election is being done by Emily Pellegrino, left, and Danielle Beardsley at the Butler County Bureau of Elections, May 28, 2020, in Butler, Pa. State laws in the crucial battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin force most mail-in ballots to be processed and counted after Election Day, sometimes stretching the process by a week or more. That lag time in getting results opens the door to lies and misinformation that can sow distrust about the eventual outcome in close races.(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) FILE - Processed mail-in ballots are seen at the Chester County Voter Services office in West Chester, Pa., prior to the primary election, May 28, 2020. State laws in the crucial battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin force most mail-in ballots to be processed and counted after Election Day, sometimes stretching the process by a week or more. That lag time in getting results opens the door to lies and misinformation that can sow distrust about the eventual outcome in close races.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) FILE - Chet Harhut, deputy manager, of the Allegheny County Division of Elections, wheels a dolly loaded with mail-in ballots, at the division of elections offices in downtown Pittsburgh, May 27, 2020. State laws in the crucial battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin force most mail-in ballots to be processed and counted after Election Day, sometimes stretching the process by a week or more. That lag time in getting results opens the door to lies and misinformation that can sow distrust about the eventual outcome in close races. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) FILE - Processors work on mail in ballots for the Pennsylvania Primary election is being done by Emily Pellegrino, left, and Danielle Beardsley at the Butler County Bureau of Elections, May 28, 2020, in Butler, Pa. State laws in the crucial battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin force most mail-in ballots to be processed and counted after Election Day, sometimes stretching the process by a week or more. That lag time in getting results opens the door to lies and misinformation that can sow distrust about the eventual outcome in close races.(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) FILE - Processed mail-in ballots are seen at the Chester County Voter Services office in West Chester, Pa., prior to the primary election, May 28, 2020. State laws in the crucial battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin force most mail-in ballots to be processed and counted after Election Day, sometimes stretching the process by a week or more. That lag time in getting results opens the door to lies and misinformation that can sow distrust about the eventual outcome in close races.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) FILE - Chet Harhut, deputy manager, of the Allegheny County Division of Elections, wheels a dolly loaded with mail-in ballots, at the division of elections offices in downtown Pittsburgh, May 27, 2020. State laws in the crucial battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin force most mail-in ballots to be processed and counted after Election Day, sometimes stretching the process by a week or more. That lag time in getting results opens the door to lies and misinformation that can sow distrust about the eventual outcome in close races. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) FILE - Democrat and Franklin County Commissioner Bob Ziobrowski, right, and Republican and member of the Franklin County election board Jerry Warnement, left, work together to review and duplicate damaged absentee and mail-in ballots that would not go through the electronic ballot scanner the morning after the Pennsylvania primary election at the Franklin County offices in Chambersburg, Pa., May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/ Carolyn Kaster, File) FILE - A person drops off a mail-in ballot at an election ballot return box in Willow Grove, Pa., Oct. 25, 2021. Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are crucial swing states that allow mail-in ballots but give local election offices very little if any time before Election Day to process them. Election workers’ inability to check signatures, addresses and get the mailed ballots ready for counting ahead of time means many of the those ballots may not be counted on Election Day. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Mail ballot fight persists in key states, sure to slow count