ABC "Mistakenly" Airs Election Result Showing Harris Winning PA
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One of the most confounding responses to the belief that the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged to keep Donald Trump from being re-elected has been the Republicans' belief that voting in 2024 will somehow get him back into office. In the build up to this year's presidential election, there have been ample signs that the integrity of America's elections is still compromised. The cognitive dissonance of the right wing of the US electorate has led them to overlook clear indications that 2024 could be nothing more than a replay of 2020. In the build up to the election, the threat of malfeasance demonstrated by massive purges of ineligible voters, protocols put into place to count votes well past election night, issues with Dominion voting machines, leaked voting system passwords, and expanded voter rolls has somehow been minimized by a voting block that should know the lengths the political establishment will go to undermine election integrity all too well.
However, the latest sign of a predetermined outcome in the election is impossible to ignore as it has literally been shoved right in front of the faces of voters. There has been no greater sign of the continued attempts to corrupt the electoral process than with what happened during an ABC broadcast of a Formula 1 race on Sunday. During the Mexico Grand Prix, viewers watching on the Pennsylvania local ABC affiliate WNEP-TV saw the station reporting the results of the presidential election in the state, with Kamala Harris winning by 5% over Donald Trump. The margin of victory for Harris of nearly 300,000 votes eclipses the amount Biden "won" the state by in 2020 by nearly 4 times as much.
The ABC affiliate responded to claims that their broadcast signified a predetermined outcome by stating that the graphic had been randomly generated as part of a test of the systems in place for their forthcoming coverage on election night. WNEP-TV officials stated that the numbers showing Harris winning the state by a vote of 3,293,712 to 2,997,793 were "randomly generated" and only aired because of an error.
The station issued an apology, stating. "WNEP regrets the error and apologizes for any confusion. We have taken steps to ensure that it does not happen again....Pennsylvania law does not allow mail-in ballots to be taken out of their envelopes until 7:00 a.m. on Election Day, and no votes of any kind will be counted in Pennsylvania until after the polls close at 8:00 p.m."
WNEP Scranton "mistakenly" showed the Pennsylvania results for the 2024 election.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 30, 2024
The ABC News affiliate called it a "test" run.
You'll never guess who they showed winning pic.twitter.com/VFL6ojIy7j
Due to Pennsylvania law prohibiting mail-in and absentee ballots from being processed before 7:00 am on election day, results from the swing-state are expected to be among the last in the nation to be finalized. Currently, 1,550,128 votes have been cast either by mail or early in-person voting. In total, 2,186,450 mail-in ballots were requested in the state for this year's election. In 2020, mail-in ballots from the Democratic stronghold of Philadelphia alone took nearly 4 days to count. The lack of initiative taken to change the state's election laws means that the outcome of the race in Pennsylvania may not be known until days after election night yet again.
Despite the response by WNEP-TV to assuage the public of concerns that the "mistake" was not indicative of anything more than a technical error, the gaffe by the station raises more questions about if votes in swing states will be manipulated in favor of the Democratic establishment. If Trump does go on to lose the 2024 election, this moment is sure to rear its ugly head as evidence in support of claims that the election was rigged against him yet again.