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Did you not read a single thing I wrote about how the Social Security numbers are verified BEFORE ballots get sent? THIS is factual. Yes, ballots do get sent out to the minority of voters who didn't provide verifiable driver's license or social security number, but that's not what I'm refuting. I'm refuting the fact that ballots were sent to 255k voters who still did not have verified ID at the time the ballots were sent. It would have been a far lower number due to the fact that the Social Security Numbers are sent for verification prior to ballots being sent, but after the application was received in the "not verified" designation.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

The "Not Verified" status refers to how the ballot application initially arrived to the county elections office. They can arrive pre-verifed if the application is submitted online with a driver's license which matches with PennDOT records. The online ballot applications which are designated as "Not Verified" are ones where the voter provided only Social Security Number, ones provided a driver's license number which didn't match PennDOT records, ones which provided non-matching PennDOT numbers and a Social Security Number, and ones where the voter didn't provide either. Ones where an SSN is provided are submitted to the HAVA interface to check against Social Security records even before a ballot can be sent to a voter. The majority of the "255k" ballot applications which were designated as "not verified" get verified this way before a ballot can even go out the door to the voter.

The applications remain coded as their original code (Onlinr Mail-In Not Verified, for example) because that's how it originally arrived. It is not an indication of the current verification status of the voter's ballot application nor an indication of the verification status of the ballot application when the ballot was sent.

So no. They DID NOT send 255k ballots to unverified voters.

While the earlier submitted article regarding the sending of "unverified" ballots was refuted by a 3rd party, I wanted to submit this article which includes information from Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh M. Chapman's response letter to Representative Ryan and other representatives on Friday.