I poll watched in PA as a representative of a local candidate. Around 10am in the precinct I was watching, a board of elections official hand delivered a pile of absentee ballots to the precinct. Once the poles closed, and numbers were taken off of the voting machines for the various races, attention focused on the absentee ballots. Each ballot was openned, inspected, and the name was then checked off in the master log book that people signed that were voting in person. The absentee ballot votes were then tallied and added to machine votes for the various races. At the end of the day, the names checked off in the book for absentee ballots and the names with signatures were counted and compared against the tallies for the combined machine and hand counted absentee ballots and they matched.
I just don't understand how they can flob off the 93,000 extra votes in the one Ohio county by saying that they were from all the absentee ballots from that precinct as well as a few others.. Those absentee ballots had to be from registered voters and they should have been checked off of a master list. Therefore, all of the in person voters and the checked off absentee voters regardless of where they came from should have given a total that matched number of votes from machines plus added in absentee ballots the the various areas.