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Pennsylvania poll watcher: ‘We literally had no input and no ability to watch anything’

A Pennsylvania poll watcher says the ability of overseers to supervise ballot-counting in Pittsburgh on Election Day was hamstrung by a setup in which observers were set too far away from ballots to make any meaningful observation of the process.

David Shestokas, a Chicago-based lawyer who joined several dozen other lawyers and Allegheny County residents to poll-watch in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, told Just the News that ballot monitors “had no input and no ability to watch anything.”

Shestokas described the setup to Just the News at what he said was a massive warehouse in downtown Pittsburgh.

“It was a huge warehouse facility,” he said. “My guess is the whole place was 40,000 square feet. Poll counters were doing their work in an area of about 15,000-20,000 square feet.”
At some point during the process—out of sight of poll watchers — the ballots were checked for “sufficiency,” with workers ensuring that the addresses, dates and signatures were properly affixed to each ballot, Shestokas said.

Eventually ballots made their way back to a central processing area, but watchers were placed far enough away that they were more or less incapable of properly observing the process, he added.

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