Allegheny County voters cast about 209,000 votes by mail or absentee ballots and 101,000 at in-person polling places in the 2020 Pennsylvania primary election, officials said Wednesday.
As of about 2:30 p.m., county staffers were working to upload the final batch of results onto their website, encompassing a total of 311,325 votes. With an estimated 770,000 eligible Democrats and Republicans in the county, the turnout landed at about 40 percent.
County officials had hoped to finish the count by the end of Tuesday, but decided at around 2 a.m. to reconvene on Wednesday afternoon to finish scanning in-person ballots from about 500 voting precincts.
Elections manager David Voye said the process was "very long, tiring and time-consuming," but overall — with help from different county departments — he thought "it went fairly smooth."
The process is not over yet, though. For one, ballots received by the county by next Tuesday — by mail — will be counted, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day. This is because Gov. Tom Wolf signed an executive order extending the deadline.
First Published: June 3, 2020, 7:08 p.m.
