What Happens to Philadelphia When Ballot Harvesting Goes Mainstream?

Topic: Elections

Now in its sixth month, the Precinct Mapping Project is rounding the corner in Pennsylvania, having completed detailed data packages for all but six major counties.  Just this week, I have re-touched the mapping for Philadelphia County, the major driver of statewide Democrat victories for as far back as the mind can recall.  The county’s data is most easily digestible and discernable when organized by ward, rather than boiled all the way down to the precinct level – so that, the ward, will be our unit of measure in this article.

This piece will show not only how devastating Philly’s Democrat margins are, but how futile it is for non-leftists to think permanently enshrining ballot harvesting by pushing ahead to try to beat them at their own game is a recipe for long-term victory.

Philadelphia County reported 743,966 votes in the 2020 quasi-election, with a census-reported population of 1,603,797.  That means, if we regard every vote as authentic and legal (which they are most certainly not), then 1 out of every 2.16 people voted.  Now let’s take a moderately Republican suburban county – Lancaster – for a test case.  Lancaster reportedly contains 552,984 residents as of the 2020 census and reported 281,375 votes – meaning 1 out of every 1.97 people voted.  Applying that same, improved ratio to Philadelphia, which is now possible thanks to Automatic Voter Registration, we would get 814,110 votes reported from there, or an increase of 70,144 ballots/votes.