Headline story in today's local paper is that results from yesterday's primary election are not yet available, connected to a Republican complaint that some precincts ran out of GOP ballots (although no one was prevented from voting, since they were given the option of using the system for the disabled, which utilizes a touch-screen).
I suspect we will simply have to get used to the idea that--now that PA is using paper ballots in all counties--vote counts will simply take longer. Previously (as I know from working the polls in the past), all the tabulation was done in the machine, with a printout giving totals for each candidate. All we had to do was read the printout, fill out the reporting form, and send it to the county seat. Now, each ballot has to be scanned (or read by hand), a much more laborious process.
Nothing nefarious going on--just the result of switching to a system that provides greater reliability, as there is a hard-copy record of every vote (even for that touch-screen system, as it prints out a filled-out ballot when completed).
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