States let partisan election boards in counties interpret many already murky laws on accepting mail ballots

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Trump had states instal partisan officials to count mail in votes . https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/us/election-mail-in-ballot-rejection.html

Pennsylvania …: It lets partisan election boards in 67 counties interpret many already murky laws on accepting mail ballots, and even lets them decide whether voters should be allowed to fix mistakes.”

As Democrats struggled to come to terms with the results, claims were spread online that millions of votes had been lost or gone uncounted.
"Where did 20 million votes go when turnout was record-breaking?" one user posted on X, formerly Twitter. "There is no reasonable scenario in which we had record turnout for voting but there are 20 million votes missing. Both cannot be true."