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Turnout was quite high, and a record number of voters — about 1.8 million — cast their ballots by mail. The 2020 primary turnout by mail was 17 times greater than the 2016 primary.
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said poll workers did a tremendous job making sure things ran smoothly, and there were no major incidents to report.
She also was pleased to see people utilizing the option for mail-in ballots.
“This election year, as I’ve said, has been one of tremendous change,” she said. “Those mail-in ballots were a huge huge success. Thank goodness for Act 77, providing that opportunity to voters.”
She expects vote-counting to take a while because of the surge in mail-in ballots and the extension of some deadlines.
Because of the unrest, mail-in ballots from Philadelphia, Montgomery and Delaware counties will be accepted late as long as they were postmarked by June 2 and received by June 9.
Bucks County also won an emergency petition late Tuesday night to extend its deadline.
Boockvar said the majority of the ballots have already been received.