those are ballot requests. the returned ballots heavily favor dems so far. yes, if the gop succeeds in getting those requested ballots returned then it's good for them. but the gop in pa has been doing "vbm drives" signing people up who might not even want it just to pump up their vbm requests. the funny thing is if this happens, those people will show up on election day and be forced to submit a provisional ballot because they already have a ballot out. it could cause shitstorms at the polls when thousands of republicans are denied normal ballots and think it's part of the steal.
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